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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 0679410775
- EAN
- 9780679410775
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Hardback
- Release Title
- Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty (Everyman's Library C...
- Artist
- Nabokov, Vladimir
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679410775
ISBN-13
9780679410775
eBay Product ID (ePID)
139386
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pale Fire : Introduction by Richard Rorty
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Topic
Classics, Absurdist, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
91-053217
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"This centaur-work, half poem, half prose . . . is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, 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, The New Republic "As a literary tour de force it surpasses anything else Mr. Nabokov has done." --Atlantic Monthly "Scintillating, brilliantly inventive . . . [Pale Fire] has almost as many layers of meaning as an artichoke has petals." --Commonweal "Of all [Nabokov's] inventions, Pale Fire is the wildest, the funniest and the most earnest. It is like nothing on God's earth." --New York Herald Tribune "A monstrous, witty, intricately entertaining work . . . done with dazzling skill." --Time "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." --John Updike, "This centaur-work, half poem, half prose…is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, 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, The New Republic "As a literary tour de force it surpasses anything else Mr. Nabokov has done." - Atlantic Monthly "Scintillating, brilliantly inventive…[ Pale Fire ] has almost as many layers of meaning as an artichoke has petals." - Commonwealth "Of all [Nabokov's] inventions, Pale Fire is the wildest, the funniest and the most earnest. It is like nothing on God's earth." - New York Herald Tribune "A monstrous, witty, intricately entertaining work . . . done with dazzling skill." - Time "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -John Updike, "This centaur-work, half poem, half prose...is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, 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, The New Republic "As a literary tour de force it surpasses anything else Mr. Nabokov has done." -- Atlantic Monthly "Scintillating, brilliantly inventive...[ Pale Fire ] has almost as many layers of meaning as an artichoke has petals." -- Commonwealth "Of all [Nabokov's] inventions, Pale Fire is the wildest, the funniest and the most earnest. It is like nothing on God's earth." -- New York Herald Tribune "A monstrous, witty, intricately entertaining work...done with dazzling skill." -- Time "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." --John Updike, "This centaur-work, half poem, half prose...is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, 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, The New Republic "As a literary tour de force it surpasses anything else Mr. Nabokov has done." Atlantic Monthly "Scintillating, brilliantly inventive...[ Pale Fire ] has almost as many layers of meaning as an artichoke has petals." Commonwealth "Of all [Nabokov's] inventions, Pale Fire is the wildest, the funniest and the most earnest. It is like nothing on God's earth." New York Herald Tribune "A monstrous, witty, intricately entertaining work . . . done with dazzling skill." Time "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." John Updike, "This centaur-work, half poem, half prose…is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, 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, The New Republic "As a literary tour de force it surpasses anything else Mr. Nabokov has done." -Atlantic Monthly "Scintillating, brilliantly inventive…[Pale Fire] has almost as many layers of meaning as an artichoke has petals." -Commonwealth "Of all [Nabokov's] inventions, Pale Fire is the wildest, the funniest and the most earnest. It is like nothing on God's earth." -New York Herald Tribune "A monstrous, witty, intricately entertaining work . . . done with dazzling skill." -Time "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -John Updike
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of Lolita had made him an international literary figure. An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, Pale Fire offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, this darkly witty novel of suspense, literary one-upmanship, and political intrigue achieves that rarest of things in literature-perfect tragicomic balance. With an introduction by Richard Rorty., One of The Atlantic 's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of Lolita had made him an international literary figure. An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, Pale Fire offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, this darkly witty novel of suspense, literary one-upmanship, and political intrigue achieves that rarest of things in literature-perfect tragicomic balance. With an introduction by Richard Rorty.
LC Classification Number
PS3527.A15P3 1992
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