In the article, based on the analysis of the motives of "water", "electricity" and "mirror," the spatial-temporal structure of Nabokov's novel "Hell, or Joy of Passion" is considered. The key element of the text is also the intertextual links with L. Carroll's fairy tale "Alice in the Looking-Glass" and M. Proust's novel "Towards Svan", indicating a way of interpreting the novel world, its space-time structure and ontological status.