loppear reviewed Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Everyman's library)
Wish for more layers of wrinkles
4 étoiles
Absurdly wonderful, manipulative without being a mystery, adventurous and so mundane.
Langue : English
Publié 15 juillet 1963 par Penguin.
Pale fire
par Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale fire (1963, Penguin)
- ISBN :
- 978-0-14-008193-0
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4 étoiles
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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.