Pale Fire - Softcover

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0399504583 ISBN 13: 9780399504587

Publisher: Tarcherperigree, 1980

Synopsis

Nabokov's parody, half poem and half commentary on the poem, deals with the escapades of the deposed king of Zemala in a New England college town

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Review:

This centaur work, half-poem, half-prose . . . is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century (Mary McCarthy)

About the Author:

Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian émigré writers. He died in 1977.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tarcherperigree
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0399504583
• ISBN 13: 9780399504587
• Binding: Paperback