Nabokov's Pale fire
the magic of artistic discovery
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Author
Publication
1999 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
75,750 words, Guess
Page Count
303 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL40254M
- ISBN-100691009597
- OCLC Control Number41211639
- OCLC Control Numbernabokovspalefire00boyd
- Library of Congress Control Number99030682
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- Goodreads428021
- LibraryThing173591
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3527.A15 P3334 1999
Description
"Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of deciding between several radically different interpretations. Does the book have two narrators, as it first appears, or one? How much is fantasy and how much is reality? Whose fantasy and whose reality are they? Brian Boyd, Nabokov's biographer and hitherto the foremost proponent of the idea that Pale Fire has one narrator, John Shade, now rejects this position and presents a new and startlingly different solution that will permanently shift the nature of critical debate on the novel."--BOOK JACKET.
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