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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... offer readers the same challenge of discovery, on the same range of levels, that he encountered in life. Nowhere does he succeed better than in Pale Fire, which detonates in the creative reader's mind a chain reaction of explosive ...
... offers the rereader,11 and the even more resistant and astonishing discoveries he prepares for those ready to make a still further imaginative effort. As a researcher into one particularly complex family of butterflies, the Blues ...
... offers all readers a straightforward, accessible reading, which nevertheless itself requires some imaginative problem-solving to arrive at the “fairly simple, 'thetic' solution,” just as life itself offers its own kind of problems and ...
... offers too many simultaneous prompts to our curiosity for us to be able to follow them: what's the name of that flower? what's this really made of? how does this work? why does that happen? Life can frustrate us, bombard us with what we ...
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