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Pale Fire is a 1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional poet John Shade, with a foreword, lengthy commentary and index written by Shade's neighbor and academic colleague, Charles Kinbote.
Pale Fire. Vladimir Nabokov. 4.17. 51,579 ratings3,986 reviews. The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote.
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Pale Fire, novel in English by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1962. It consists of a long poem and a commentary on it by an insane pedant. This brilliant parody of literary scholarship is also an experimental synthesis of Nabokov’s talents for both poetry and prose.
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Dec 2, 2011 · “Pale Fire,” Vladimir Nabokov’s resplendent rare bird of a novel, comes with its own commentary built in.
- Giles Harvey
Pale Fire is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov that tells the story of a poet, John Shade, and his murderer, Jack Grey, through an annotated edition of Shade's final poem. The novel also reveals the delusions and deceptions of Shade's neighbor and editor, Charles Kinbote, who claims to be a king from a fictional country.
Feb 16, 2011 · An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, Pale Fire offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written...
