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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... surprises and the possibility that the surprises it intimates may lie in wait in the world around us. The reading of Pale Fire I propose suggests a way of reading all of Nabokov that runs counter to the still widespread notion that he ...
... surprises. He works with unusual care at the surface of his style, but he does so to open up unusual depths of feeling and thought. Unlike a Mann or a Musil, he quickly becomes impatient with ideas, but he may one day be seen as one of ...
... surprise that he thinks hidden behind life and death by the mysterious generosity somehow hidden still further behind. READING Introducing his course “Masterpieces of European Fiction” at Cornell, Nabokov would tell his students ...
... surprise waiting in each word. He spaces and grades his challenges, so that we can handle enough of them to continue at speed, so that we can solve enough to want to look out for more, but so that we do not even 12 INTRODUCTION.
... surprises lurking behind natural-seeming surfaces, I return to particular quotations, as readers keep returning to them in successive readings of Pale Fire, with a new sense of the novel's problems and possibilities each time. Part One ...