Pale Fire: Vladimir Nabokov (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Nabokov, Vladimir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141185260 ISBN 13: 9780141185262

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2000

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Críticas

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)

Reseña del editor

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should.

Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141185260
• ISBN 13: 9780141185262
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256