loppear reviewed Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Wish for more layers of wrinkles
4 stars
Absurdly wonderful, manipulative without being a mystery, adventurous and so mundane.
214 pages
English language
Published July 15, 1968 by Berkley Books.
Pale Fire
4 stars
(1 review)
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
Subjects
- Kings and rulers
- Assassination
- American poetry
- Fiction