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Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher
Vintage
Year
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224

This is literature as hall of mirrors. Nabokov constructs a poem surrounded by commentary that may be brilliant scholarship or complete delusion—probably both. The reader becomes detective, trying to separate truth from obsession while Kinbote's voice grows increasingly unhinged. Perfect for puzzle-lovers and anyone who enjoys being made complicit in someone else's magnificent breakdown. The structure holds together like a house of cards in a hurricane: impossibly balanced, constantly threatening to collapse into genius or madness.

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