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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... critical controversy among those who have read and reread it that burns more fiercely every year. Rereaders of the novel incline to one of four major positions, three of which have been around almost since Pale Fire was published in ...
... critical discovery surrounding the novel; and the explanation of the nature of discovery advanced by Karl Popper from the time of his Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) and until his death.14 As Bryan Magee has recently observed ...
... jerked back, perplexed. Unlike the students, he had not missed the absurdity of the opening line—as if I had said that a family has nine children, all twins. The second paragraph continues in the same apparently bloodless critical.
... critical vein but its pulse soon starts to twitch erratically: “The short (166 lines) Canto One, with all those amusing birds and parhelia, occupies thirteen cards.* Canto Two, your favorite, and that shocking tour de force, Canto Three ...
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