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Genre/Form: | Experimental fiction, American Experimental fiction Detective and mystery fiction Black humor Criticism, interpretation, etc Mystery fiction Humour noir Fiction |
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Named Person: | Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov; Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
ISBN: | 0679410775 9780679410775 |
OCLC Number: | 24467494 |
Description: | xxiii, 315 p. ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Foreword -- Pale fire, a poem in four cantos -- Commentary -- Index. |
Series Title: | Everyman's library, no. 67. |
Responsibility: | Vladimir Nabokov. |
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Abstract:
"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 foreword 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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