Pale Fire
- ISBN-10
- 1857150678
- ISBN-13
- 9781857150674
- Series
- Pale Fire
- Pages
- 315
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- David Campbell
- Author
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Description
"An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, [this book] offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreward and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, this darkly witty novel of suspense, literary one-upmanship, and political intrigue achieves that rarest of things in literature -- perfect tragicomic balance."--
