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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... Kinbote to embrace them as the key to Zembla . Kinbote's fantasy aside , however , this variant worldview creates an alternate poem running parallel to the final version , exploring the spiritual and otherworldly realms instead of ...
... Kinbote would also have us believe that he is the exiled and persecuted king of the Northern land of Zembla , a questionable fact which forms the linchpin of Kinbote's commentary and , or so Kinbote would have us believe , of Shade's ...
... Kinbote's mad commentary on the poem is , in part , a deli- ciously comic parody of the kind of scholarly project that Nabo- kov himself undertook in his edition of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin , in which Nabokov's annotations are almost as ...
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