Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0004718, Wed, 26 Jan 2000 08:25:08 -0800

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Boyd's "Pale Fire" (fwd)
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From: sam schuman <schumans@mrs.umn.edu>

Brian Boyd's new book, "Nabokov's 'Pale Fire'" is very briefly reviewed in
this week's CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION:

"Argues that Nabokov designed the 1962 novel with clues that allow readers
to make increasingly elusive discoveries on each rereading of the book:
contends, among other things, that the novel has two narrators: John Shade
and Charles Kinbote."

I'm particularly fond of that "among other things;" it reminds me of the
"blurb" which ends "Ada."

There is a little photo of the book's cover at the top of the "New
Scholarly Books" section (p. A24) of this edition of the CHRONICLE (28
January 2000).


Sam

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