Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Description: The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccent ... (more)

Manufacturer : Penguin Classics
Release date : 31 August 2000
ISBN-10 : 0141185260 | ISBN-13: 9780141185262

Metafiction (2), Unreliable Narrator (2), Assassination (1), Imaginary Country (1), Poetry (1), Literature (1), Read For School (1), Fiction (1), Novel (1), Postmodern (1)

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""...the basic fact that 'reality' is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average 'reality' perceived by the communal eye." p. 106 "Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences." p. 208 "My notes and self are petering out." p. 235"

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