Vintage Books Pale Fire 微暗的火 當代文學 Reissue版

"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 the rarest of things in literature—perfect tragicomic balance. The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the leaders of the opposition party, the Kadets.

 

A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita.

 

Features

• Edition : novel of suspense, literary
• Binding : paperback
• ISBN : 9780679723424
• Publication Date : 1989/4/23

 

Materials & Care

• Imported