Pale Fire
Nabokov, Vladimir / Vietor, Marc / Blumenfeld, Robert In Pale Fire, Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade, an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote, a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry, one-upmanship, and political intrigue.?This centaur work, half poem, half prose?is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curi...