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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... READING STORY AS DISCOVERY 17 1. Foreword 25 2. Poem 37 3. Commentary 63 4. Index 67 5. Pale Fire 75 PART TWO • ANTITHESIS: REREADING IN SEARCH OF THE STORY BEHIND 77 6. Intrusions of the Real: Shade 89 7. Excursions from the Real ...
... reading, I would like to acknowledge all who have contributed in print to our growing understanding of Pale Fire, from early readers like Mary McCarthy and Carol T. Williams to the Kinboteans, Shadeans, the Kinbote-or-Shadeans, and the ...
... reading; Dieter E. Zimmer, for following up a particular line of inquiry for me, as so often before, and for the service he has provided to all of those working on the Lepidoptera in Nabokov in his Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and ...
... readers can discover new ways of writing and reading and that these discoveries have much in common with the process of scientific discovery.4 DISCOVERY Nabokov himself was passionately committed to discovery all his life, as a ...
... readers the same challenge of discovery, on the same range of levels, that he encountered in life. Nowhere does he ... reading that no one had yet glimpsed. This new interpretation contradicts all the others—and confutes the 4 INTRODUCTION.