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FICTION/LITERATXJRE
abokov writes prose the only
way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." —John Updike
In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly * comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.
"This centaur work, half-poem, half prose .is a creation of perfect beauty, S3rmmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century." —Mary McCarthy
One ofthe twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United...
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Fülszöveg
i>- i'. Il-' s'^a'-iu-
R E
FICTION/LITERATXJRE
abokov writes prose the only
way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." —John Updike
In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly * comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.
"This centaur work, half-poem, half prose .is a creation of perfect beauty, S3rmmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century." —Mary McCarthy
One ofthe twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.
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