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Books : Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679410775
ISBN: 0679410775
Label: Everyman's Library
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: March 10, 1992
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date: March 10, 1992
Studio: Everyman's Library
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here's the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus.
In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isn't, of course, a single solution. But Nabokov's best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbote's mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what he'd intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo
Product Description:
Introduction by Richard Rorty
Rating:
- Even works as performance art
What I love about this book, is the way it has provided fodder for graduate studies. This book is a delight in so many ways. In one way it is a reversal of the poetry of the Modernists that you need an encyclopedic knowledge to approach. Nabokov wrote this knowing that thousands of scholarly papers would attempt to disect it.
Rating: - everyman's decisions
Aside from the fact that I had to re-order, the first being damaged, I am satisfied overall except for one rather important point.
Everyman has decided to produce this book using a very delicate ink gradation. This does not cause any undue difficulty in reading, unless there is extremely low light. However, if we were to grade ink from 0 (invisible) to 100 (pitch black), the choice of going with 65 to 70 is an error. I like my black ink to be black, and values under 85 look less than black ... Read More
Rating: - Enjoyable at Multiple Levels
As someone who reads and interprets American fiction for a living (pity me), this is the first novel I've read in ages that challenged me and then rewards the reader's efforts when the depths of the multiple layers of storytelling started to show themselves. Don't think you've got it solved when you realize that Kinbote isn't who you thought he was. He's not THAT second person either. And there's ghosts -- several of them -- who take possession of the story in various ways. I don't want to wreck ... Read More
Rating:
- Clever
A clever construction and master of words in an essentially unreadable work that fails to hold interest either on a character level or, for lack of a better term, plot. This book is like watching a painter work, marveling at what he does with great appreciation, while the actual painting itself is unappreciable.
Rating: - Mind bending!
A story within a story, a madman reworking and annotating another's poetry and attributing minute details as if they were secret references of his life. How perfect a story Nabokov has written. A jewel of a book.
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Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by: Vladimir Nabokov
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679410775
ISBN: 0679410775
Label: Everyman's Library
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: March 10, 1992
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date: March 10, 1992
Studio: Everyman's Library
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- Lolita
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- The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
- Invitation to a Beheading
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad émigré. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Here's the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote.
According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbote's colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zembla's King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarch's eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus.
In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But it's Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poet's manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isn't, of course, a single solution. But Nabokov's best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbote's mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what he'd intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo
Product Description:
Introduction by Richard Rorty
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Even works as performance artWhat I love about this book, is the way it has provided fodder for graduate studies. This book is a delight in so many ways. In one way it is a reversal of the poetry of the Modernists that you need an encyclopedic knowledge to approach. Nabokov wrote this knowing that thousands of scholarly papers would attempt to disect it.
Rating:
- everyman's decisionsAside from the fact that I had to re-order, the first being damaged, I am satisfied overall except for one rather important point.
Everyman has decided to produce this book using a very delicate ink gradation. This does not cause any undue difficulty in reading, unless there is extremely low light. However, if we were to grade ink from 0 (invisible) to 100 (pitch black), the choice of going with 65 to 70 is an error. I like my black ink to be black, and values under 85 look less than black ... Read More
Rating:
- Enjoyable at Multiple LevelsAs someone who reads and interprets American fiction for a living (pity me), this is the first novel I've read in ages that challenged me and then rewards the reader's efforts when the depths of the multiple layers of storytelling started to show themselves. Don't think you've got it solved when you realize that Kinbote isn't who you thought he was. He's not THAT second person either. And there's ghosts -- several of them -- who take possession of the story in various ways. I don't want to wreck ... Read More
Rating:
- CleverA clever construction and master of words in an essentially unreadable work that fails to hold interest either on a character level or, for lack of a better term, plot. This book is like watching a painter work, marveling at what he does with great appreciation, while the actual painting itself is unappreciable.
Rating:
- Mind bending!A story within a story, a madman reworking and annotating another's poetry and attributing minute details as if they were secret references of his life. How perfect a story Nabokov has written. A jewel of a book.
Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •
