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Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

282 pages

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About this book

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.

Themes
MysteriousThought-ProvokingWhat Does It All Mean?Strange & UnsettlingFunny & SatiricalObsessive order against chaosThe unreliability of memoryArt as desperate survival
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