Pale Fire
11 hrs. 33 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Narrator
Mikhail Lukashov
Narrator
Mikhail Lukashov
Description
Vladimir Nabokov’s experimental novel is one of his brightest and most witty works.
In terms of structure, the novel is a large-scale, almost thousand-line poem “Pale Fire,” written by the heroic stanza of the famous American poet John Francis Shade, and an extensive commentary on this poem, compiled for the most part of the novel by Dr. Charles Kinbote. Of course, both Shade and Kinbote are fictional characters. And the commentary, although it is formally built according to the rules of commentary to a literary work, resembles a literary game containing a huge number of cultural references and freely operating with various genres—from a play to a scientific article and memoir prose.
In terms of structure, the novel is a large-scale, almost thousand-line poem “Pale Fire,” written by the heroic stanza of the famous American poet John Francis Shade, and an extensive commentary on this poem, compiled for the most part of the novel by Dr. Charles Kinbote. Of course, both Shade and Kinbote are fictional characters. And the commentary, although it is formally built according to the rules of commentary to a literary work, resembles a literary game containing a huge number of cultural references and freely operating with various genres—from a play to a scientific article and memoir prose.
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