| Description |
xxvii, 239 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Everyman's library.
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| Contents |
Foreword -- Pale fire, a poem in four cantos -- Commentary -- Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xix) and index. |
| Summary |
"An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, 'Pale Fire' offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreward and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, this darkly witty novel of suspense, literary one-upmanship, and political intrigue achieves that rarest of things in literature -- perfect tragicomic balance." |
| Subject |
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Genre |
Experimental fiction.
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| ISBN |
0679410775 |
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9780679410775 |
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