Pale Fire

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Nabokov, Vladimir	4-week checkout	Due 05-07-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Classic / Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich	4-week checkout	Due 05-10-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Classic / Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich	4-week checkout	Due 05-15-2024

"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 by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreward and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, this darkly witty novel of suspense, literary one-upmanship, and political intrigue achieves that rarest of things in literature -- perfect tragicomic balance."

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BRGRBBGRGBR submitted by MagicallyMay on August 5, 2019, 12:11pm REAEREB

Pale Fire submitted by hrgray on July 5, 2023, 10:58pm I found this book an interesting and sometimes comedic deep dive into the mind of an unreliable narrator. While Kinbote's voice does make reading through some of the notes a bit of a slog, it was worth it to enjoy such a creatively structured work.