72 Pages
by
Routledge
72 Pages
by
Routledge
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This manuscript examines Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire , widely regarded as his most challenging and critically acclaimed work. While Lolita remains Nabokov's best-known novel, Pale Fire has generated the most sustained scholarly attention and interpretive debate among literary critics. Existing scholarship on Shakespeare's influence in Pale Fire has remained narrowly focused on Timon of... Read more
Chapter One Hamlet’s Ghost
Chapter Two Macbeth
Chapter Three Timon of Athens
Chapter Four Shakespeare and daughters
Chapter Five From Shakespeare to Ovid
Chapter Six Hazel’s March winds
Chapter Seven Hazel and her parents
Appendices
Biography
Gerard de Vries’ fascination with Pale Fire resulted in more than ten published papers about this novel, of which the first appeared in Russian Literature Triquarterly (1991). With D. Barton Johnson he wrote Nabokov and the Art of Painting (2006) and his Silent Love. The Annotation and Interpretation of Nabokov’s Real Life of Sebastian Knight appeared in 2016.
