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Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty

Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty

Nabokov, Vladimir
Rorty, Richard

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $32.00

ISBN10: 0679410775
ISBN13: 9780679410775
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Mar 10 1992
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.27 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of Lolita had made him an international literary figure.

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. With an introduction by Richard Rorty.

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