Nabokov's Pale Fire : : The Magic of Artistic Discovery / / Brian Boyd.
Pale Fire is regarded by many as Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece. The novel has been hailed as one of the most striking early examples of postmodernism and has become a famous test case for theories about reading because of the apparent impossibility of deciding between several radically differe...
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