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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... already persuaded many and adducing new evidence that was inclining still others to waver, and was asked to present a complete statement of the case in print. But as I reread Pale Fire, a few niggles in the novel itself and in the ...
... already begun, even before the playful transformation of a town in upstate New York into “New Wye, Appalachia.” Once when teaching Pale Fire I had in my graduate class, as well as bright young students, the recently retired former head ...
... already explode into expostulation. Can he prove a competent commentator? The intrigue swirling around the manuscript intensifies as Kinbote names “Prof. Hurley and his clique” as his antagonists, and insists on the poem's completeness ...
... already much better after his heart attack, she reports, “but the boy is strictly hetero, and, generally speaking, Your Majesty will have to be quite careful from now on.” (248) The force of Kinbote's comparing himself to “a lean wary ...
... already know that secret: Kinbote is the disguised king of Zembla. We can see already that Kinbote has been feeding Shade the story of the king, passed off as someone else's, as FOREWORD 21.