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.
Wei an de huo (Chinese language, 2008, Shanghai yi wen chu ban she)
367 pages
Chinese language
Published July 15, 2008 by Shanghai yi wen chu ban she.
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.
Absurdly wonderful, manipulative without being a mystery, adventurous and so mundane.