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.
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale fire. (1962, Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Langue : English
Publié 13 novembre 1962 par Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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.
Absurdly wonderful, manipulative without being a mystery, adventurous and so mundane.