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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... think we have found. Nabokov's finest novel has become a paradigm of literary elusiveness, a test case of apparent undecidability.2 That seems to suit our muddled times, when “advanced” thinkers claim we must all accept as a universal ...
... think equally irresistible the excitement of the literary research he undertook in the 1950s for his edition of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, or the sustained sixty-year thrill of literary invention, or his lifelong quest to locate our ...
... but his ultimate irony is that people fail to see the bewildering bounty of life. He is an artist who does indeed flaunt some of his artifice, but only to leave much more concealed, as he thinks life itself hides most of its INTRODUCTION 5.
The Magic of Artistic Discovery Brian Boyd. concealed, as he thinks life itself hides most of its unending 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 ...
... think we know. In advancing what he calls his “non-authoritarian theory of knowledge,”17 Popper shows that we must ... thinks that behind the endless complexity of things we can discover in science lurks “something else, something else ...