Abstract
<jats:p>The article analyzes A. S. Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” in the context of intertextuality and postmodern poetics. It explores how the author integrates classical fairy-tale structures with contemporary aesthetic principles to create a new artistic space. The study demonstrates that through the intertextual allusions, genre transformation, and feminist discourse, Byatt investigates both the female subject’s search for freedom and identity and the text’s multilayered interpretative potential. Intertextual references to “Patient Griselda” and “One Thousand and One Nights” allow the author to critically reinterpret the representation of women within patriarchal cultural frameworks. Bayett’s intercultural approach to the story, her synthesis of Eastern and Western mythological codes, as well as his involvement of fairy tales in a new form of intertextual dialogue, determines its postmodern irony and aesthetic multiplicity. The article argues that intertextuality serves as a key indicator enhancing the semantic, aesthetic, and ideological depth of a literary text. Keywords: postmodernism, intertextuality, fairy tale, symbol, irony</jats:p>