Pale Fire

Name: Pale Fire
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141185262

Vladimir Nabokov

31/08/2000
Penguin Classics

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Pale Fire par Vladimir Nabokov

Résumé

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.