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Brian Boyd: Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery
- Brian Boyd
- Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery
Detailed Information
- PRINCETON UNIV PR , 10/2001
- Binding: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780691089577
- Volume: 320 Pages
- Weight: 449 g
- Format: 234 x 155 mm
- Thickness: 21 mm
Book is not in German language
Blurb
Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of deciding between several radically different interpretations. Does the book have two narrators, as it first appears, or one? How much is fantasy and how much is reality? Brian Boyd, Nabokov's biographer and hitherto the foremost proponent of the idea that Pale Fire has one narrator, John Shade, now rejects this position and presents a new and startlingly different solution that will permanently shift the nature of critical debate on the novel. Boyd argues that the book does indeed have two narrators, Shade and Charles Kinbote, but reveals that Kinbote had some strange and highly surprising help in writing his sections. In light of this interpretation, Pale Fire now looks distinctly less postmodern -- and more interesting than ever.Free shipping within Germany