Pale Fire

Kirjan Pale Fire (1989) on kirjoittanut Vladimir Nabokov. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut VINTAGE. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 320 sivua ja se on nidottu.

A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita. "Half-poem, half-prose. .. a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century. " --Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The Group 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, Vladimir Nabokov's witty novel achieves that rarest of things in literature--perfect tragicomic balance.