Таким образом, Набоков определяет и свое отношение к религии,
для него потусторонность "там" - творящая сила, а не земные боги.
This is extremely obscure.
Even if I failed to guess the main secret in
Fame, my observations regarding the allusions in
Slava to Pushkin and Gogol are not completely
worthless.
Re potustoronnost': just as we can not see the back
side of the moon (according to Gogol's madman, the moon is
inhabited by people's noses), the back of Gogol's
chimney-sweep is invisible to ordinary readers. One expects it to be
soot black and is surprised to find out that it is clean (but I
do not insist on my solution).
Alexey Sklyarenko