Nabokov's Pale Fire : The Magic of Artistic Discovery by Brian Boyd - 1999

Princeton University Press, 1999-11-15. Hardcover. Very Good. minor stain on cover and closed page edge - otherwise dust jacket fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. New Book. Hardcover, dust jacket, 303 pp. "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? Whose fantasy and whose reality are they? 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.… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Princeton University Press, 1999-12-04. hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!