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Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
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Literature 1962
Pale Fire
poem-and-commentary mazeKinbote obsessionZembla delusion
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Synopsis
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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Vladimir Nabokov, 1962 — Pale Fire
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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Restates power in a sharper literature register.
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A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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