Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic DiscoveryPrinceton University Press, 2001 M10 15 - 320 páginas 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. Boyd argues that the book does indeed have two narrators, Shade and Charles Kinbote, but reveals that Kinbote had some strange and highly surprising help in writing his sections. In light of this interpretation, Pale Fire now looks distinctly less postmodern--and more interesting than ever. |
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... Zembla: A Woman Spurned 173 11. “Pale Fire”: Origins and Ends 188 12. “A Poem in Four Cantos”: Sign and Design 207 13. From Zembla to Appalachia: The Contrapuntal Theme 233 14. “Pale Fire,” Pale Fire, pale fire: The Spiral Unwinds 247 ...
... Zembla! As his description of his harrowing night sweats darkens, Kinbote refers us to his note to lines 47–48 (we smile: we know that note, we'll get back and finish it as soon as we're out of this one) and then to the note to line 691 ...
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