Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty Hardcover - 1992
by Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by Richard Rorty
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With an Introduction by Richard Rorty
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of Lolita had made him an international literary figure. 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, this darkly witty novel of suspense, literary one-upmanship, and political intrigue achieves that rarest of things in literature--perfect tragicomic balance.
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- Title Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty
- Author Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction by Richard Rorty
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Everyman's
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Everyman's Library, U.S.A.
- Date 1992-03-10
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780679410775 / 0679410775
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.22 x 5.27 x 0.86 in (20.88 x 13.39 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Experimental fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91053217
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Newsweek, 09/08/2008, Page 12
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