Pale Fire - Rilegato

Nabokov, Vladimir

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0141197242 ISBN 13: 9780141197241

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2012

Riassunto

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.

Part of a major new beautiful hardback series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.

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Recensione:

He did us all an honour by electing to use, and transform, our language (Anthony Burgess)

L'autore:

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, as well as a translator and lepidopterist. His works include, from the Russian novels, The Luzhin Defense and The Gift; from the English novels, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada; the autobiographical Speak, Memory; translations of Alice in Wonderland into Russian and Eugene Onegin into English; and lectures on literature. All of the fiction and Speak, Memory are published in Penguin.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141197242
• ISBN 13: 9780141197241
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352