Description: Nabokov's Pale Fire : The Magic of Artistic Discovery, Paperback by Boyd, Brian, ISBN 0691089574, ISBN-13 9780691089577, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokovs 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 th 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, Nabokovs 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 th does indeed have two narrators, Shade and Charles Kinbote, but reveals that Kinbote had some strange and highly surprising help in writing his sections. In light of this interpretation, Pale Fire now looks distinctly less postmodern--and more interesting than ever.
In presenting his arguments, Boyd shows how Nabokov designed Pale Fire for readers to make surprising discoveries on a first reading and even more surprising discoveries on subsequent readings by following carefully prepared clues within the novel. Boyd leads the reader step-by-step through th, gradually revealing the profound relationship between Nabokovs ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and metaphysics. If Nabokov has generously planned the novel to be accessible on a first reading and yet to incorporate successive vistas of surprise, Boyd argues, it is because he thinks a deep generosity lies behind the inexhaustibility, complexity, and mystery of the world. Boyd also shows how Nabokovs interest in discovery springs in part from his work as a scientist and scholar, and draws comparisons between the processes of readerly and scientific discovery.
This is a profound, provocative, and compelling reinterpretation of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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Book Title: Nabokov's Pale Fire : The Magic of Artistic Discovery
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Nabokov's Pale Fire : the Magic of Artistic Discovery
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2001
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: European / General, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Item Weight: 15 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Brian Boyd
Item Length: 11 in
Item Width: 4.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
