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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... 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 Conclusion 263 Notes 291 Bibliography 299 Index Acknowledgments I WOULD LIKE to ...
... four major positions, three of which have been around almost since Pale Fire was published in 1962, and the fourth, arguing that we must move beyond the first, but only to find the second and third readings locked in intentionally ...
... four parts—a Foreword, signed Charles Kinbote; the long poem “Pale Fire,” by John Shade; Kinbote's line-by- line Commentary to the poem; and his Index.1 One of the many jokes of this very funny novel is that when we reach the end of the ...
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