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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... mind a chain reaction of explosive discoveries that become still more explosive the more we reread. Reveling in the find after find that she had made—or thought she had made—in Pale Fire, Mary McCarthy ended her review by hailing it ...
... minds; that we are free to invent any theories whatsoever, but before any such theory can be accepted as knowledge it has to be shown to be preferable to whatever theory or theories it would replace if we accepted it; that such a ...
... mind the additional challenge of attempting to wrest out its secrets and sense and the additional reward of the thrill of discovery. As Martin Amis observes, Nabokov, whatever else he may do, “spins a jolly good yarn, with believable ...
... mind, the virtual stasis of his plots, the details left unexplained until hundreds of pages later. Nabokov, by contrast, writes with an acute awareness of the range and capacity of his readers, whom he thinks—pace Rabinowitz—“the most ...
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