Pale Fire

Wow. I have to say that through a large part of the book the plot seemed to lack any direction whatsoever. It ended up being VERY interesting, however, in terms of style, format and plot. Highly recommended.

I gave this book to my stepmother and she said don't ever give me some shit like that again as if she had no idea what the hell had just happened to her, and I totally understood how she feel. I read Pale Fire in first year college english seminar "ouch"! I didn't know what I was getting into. It sat on my shelves for months after that until one day I picked it up again and...more

I gave this book to my stepmother and she said don't ever give me some shit like that again as if she had no idea what the hell had just happened to her, and I totally understood how she feel. I read Pale Fire in first year college english seminar "ouch"! I didn't know what I was getting into. It sat on my shelves for months after that until one day I picked it up again and then another day again, and ever since then I have periodically picked it up and either reading it again or handed it off someone almost as an exercise still playing around with ideas about what exactly it is that does or does not take place within the pages of pale fire. I always find it to be fabulous to have new people to talk about with and I always find that I typically end up with a headache and want to go back to my happy place.. But I must say as much as I originally loathed that book. I have come to love reading.   hide

Gloriously other. Is it a satire of the literary life, or a tale told by a madman? Anyway, it is an amazing work - a demonstration of the many very beautiful and otherworldly games that the mind can play with words.

quirky, interesting, odd agglomeration of romance and postmodernism. If you read nabokov's other poetry you'll see that there is more of john shade in nabokov than nabokovians think!!

it took me forever to read this book, my main interest in it stemming from nabokov's signature lush prose, rather than any sort of plot-related intrigue. it's of course stunning, but surprisingly not that interesting: you know everything that's going to happen from the very beginning. still, worth a read, although "lolita" was for me far superior.

Six years later, I still want to slap that narrator. Ugh.

reprenons la liste : Trois contes de Flaubert, Chronique d'une mort annoncée de Marquez, Fictions de Borgès, Noces de Camus, Feu pâle de Nabokov . Donc ? A quand la définition de la nouvelle littéraire à partir d'une étude historique en littérature comparée de ces oeuvres-Là ??

A romp : )

My absolute favorite Nabakov.