Pale fire: a novel

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Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

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Nabokov's parody, half poem and half commentary on the poem, deals with the escapades of the deposed king of Zemala in a New England college town "John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus. In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that clear?"--Amazon.com.

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Eva H. Perry Regional
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1989

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Experimental fiction
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1899-1977 -- Poetic works
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1899-1977. -- Pale fire

Pale fire : a novel

Pale fire : a novel / by Vladimir Nabokov

Pale fire

a novel

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Poetic works