Pale Fire

One of the men arrested in the Hutaree group used the name Pale Fire when he posted material on militia Web sites.

All Stories | The New York Observer 2010

The point he was making was that in Pale Fire all the really important things are put in the footnotes.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

Perhaps his finest illustration of this is captured in Pale Fire, his stunning metafictional novel, which is both a poem (by VN's character, mild-mannered poet John Shade) and a much-longer critical commentary (by VN's character, the potentially deranged Charles Kinbote).

Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift Tamsin Smith 2011

The point he was making was that in Pale Fire all the really important things are put in the footnotes.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

Perhaps his finest illustration of this is captured in Pale Fire, his stunning metafictional novel, which is both a poem (by VN's character, mild-mannered poet John Shade) and a much-longer critical commentary (by VN's character, the potentially deranged Charles Kinbote).

Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift Tamsin Smith 2011

I like Pnin, but I think it's Nabokov's fourth best, after Lolita, Pale Fire, and Invitation to a Beheading.

Five Books of professors 2009

Nabokov had the energy, determination, intelligence, ability to hold many things in his head at once think of the architecture of Pale Fire, competitive streak, and so forth to be a top chess player.

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Nabokov had the energy, determination, intelligence, ability to hold many things in his head at once think of the architecture of Pale Fire, competitive streak, and so forth to be a top chess player.

What % Of 7-Footers Play Basketball? 2009

So, you wind up with a lovely subset of nonfiction that often reads like Kinbote from Pale Fire is your narrator.

Paradigms & Fairytales: What’s Your Favorite Eccentric Nonfiction Book? (Er, and Beer) 2009

Invitation is a personal preference, but I think Pale Fire has to be in his top two.

Five Books of professors 2009