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Nabokov's Pale Fire : the magic of artistic discovery

by Brian Boyd

This critical analysis provides a reinterpretation of the novel Pale Fire, analysing its narrative structure and the connections between its aesthetics and metaphysics. It explores how the text reveals progressive layers of meaning through the discovery of internal clues.

Accession 15844 ISBN 0691009597 Publisher Princeton University Press
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