loppear reviewed Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Wish for more layers of wrinkles
4 stars
Absurdly wonderful, manipulative without being a mystery, adventurous and so mundane.
315 pages
English language
Published July 15, 1992 by Everyman's Library.
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale fire (1992, Everyman's Library)
- ISBN:
- 978-1-85715-067-4
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4 stars
(1 review)
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.