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Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

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#3026 of 8,085 books · #1448 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1963).

The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

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Publisher
ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN-13
9783498046071
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Unreliable narrationObsession and identityMetafiction and literary parody

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