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**AD-TEAM** · 02-15-2025, 09:58 PM

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Quote:A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita.

"Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century." -Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The Group

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, Vladimir Nabokov's witty novel achieves that rarest of things in literature-perfect tragicomic balance.

Category:Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Awards, American Fiction, Fiction Subjects, 20th Century American Fiction, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Conflicts - Fiction, 20th Century American Fiction - 1945-2000, Avant-Garde/Experimental Fiction, Black Comedy, Illusion & Reality - Fiction, American Poetry, General & Miscellaneous Poetry, Poetry - General & Miscellaneous, 20th Century American Poetry, Other American Poetry, American poetry->20th century, American poetry->Male authors, Slate's Favorite Fiction of 2011