Intertextual relations in D.Amantay�s novel �Flowers and books� (2003) which is the first postmodern novel in Kazakh literature are being studied for the first time in this article. In the introduction, we have reviewed importance of the research, works of investigators of D.Amantay�s novel �Flowers and books�. In the main part, we have identified the author�s reasons to have written the novel, whose experience he relied on when writing the novel which was based on the theory of intertextuality, and the writers of the world literature who had an impact on him. Sources of references in the novel �Flowers and books�, methods of presenting references in the text and their meaning formation role in the text have been defined, and analyses have been conducted on their function and interpretation in the text. As a result: 1. It has been concluded that the writer realized the need for new experiments in literature that was developing in a new level in a post-colonial state, consciously abandoning social realism offered by the Soviet Union. 2. It has been identified that his writing in postmodernism was prompted by crises in the country as well as in literature. 3. References in the novel �Flowers and books� have been defined and systematized conditionally as follows: 1) intertext taken from literary texts and theoretical works 2) intertext made to works dedicated to investigating myths and Turkic history 3) intertext made to religious texts and works dedicated to investigating them. 4. Having considered intertextual relations between the novel �Flowers and books� and works of the post-structuralism writer R.Barthes, it was proved that D.Amantay based his novel on theories of �author�s death� and �Intertextuality�. 5. By studying intertextual relations between D.Amantay�s novel �Flowers and books� and U.Eco�s novel �The Name of the Rose�, essay �Postscript to The Name of the Rose�, J.L. Borges� narrative �Library of Babel�, it has been identified that he relied on their experiences while creating intertext-based novel; 6. References made to myths, different examples of oral literature related to Turkic studies (myths about Turkic nations� origin rooting from wolf, legends about Asan Qaigy who was positioned in Kazakh literature as �Eden seeker�) in the novel have been defined, and their functions and interpretation have been studied. 7. Identifying references made to religious texts (Bible, Quran, Torah, Zabur, �Avesta�, �Collision of worlds� of I.Velikovsky, �Essential sacred writings from around the world� of M.Eliade, religious encyclopeadias), there has been made research of their functions and interpretation in the text.

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