This dissertation is to study the parody of literary genre/mode in three of Nabokov’s novels. Parody is a means of refreshing the exhausted literary texts. Nabokov first imitates the conventions of confession, editorial commentary and detective fiction respectively in the novels I am going to examine. He arouses the reader’s expectation for the parodied literary modes, but then deviates from the traditions by providing something new. The sudden twist in plot or style will surprise and confuse the reader but also gives him/her a chance to think about the intention of the implied and real authors. Nabokov does not intend to ridicule the parodied work. Instead, he would like to use parody as a springboard for the reader to leap to a higher region, where the lazy reader is awakened by the creativity of the author.