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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... Real: Shade 89 7. Excursions from the Real: Kinbote 107 8. Problems: Shade and Kinbote 127 PART THREE • SYNTHESIS: RE-REREADING DISCOVERY AS STORY 129 9. Transformation x CONTENTS 149 10. From Appalachia to Zembla: A Woman Contents.
... problem, an infernal machine, a trap to catch reviewers, a cat-and-mouse game, a do-it- yourself kit.... This centaur-work of Nabokov's, half-poem, halfprose, this merman of the deep, is a creature of perfect beauty, symmetry ...
... problem, to which we freely invent solutions that we then need to test against alternatives, by comparing their consistency, their consequences, their explanatory power. In Pale Fire Nabokov poses a whole series of problems, problems ...
... problem's value is due to the number of “tries”—delusive opening moves, false scents, specious lines of play ... problem-composer and problem-solver epitomizes just what disturbs them in reading Nabokov: that he seems to see the reader ...
... problems than in the competition of chess games. Despite the resistance a good problem must have to easy solution, others must be able to solve it, or it is a failure. Because of the resistance, successful solvers can enjoy knowing they ...