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| Name: |
Vladimir Nabokov | | Birth Date: |
April 23, 1899 | | Death Date: |
July 2, 1977 | | Place of Birth: |
St. Petersburg, Russia | | Place of Death: |
Montreaux, Switzerland | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, poet |
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 Biography of Vladimir Nabokov
1102 words, approx. 3.7 pages
 The Russian-born American poet, fiction writer, critic, and butterfly expert Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of his time, was noted for his sensuous and lyrical descriptions, verbal games and experimental narrativ... summary from source:
 Biography of Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov
10593 words, approx. 35.3 pages
 It is a paradox that Vladimir Nabokov's life and career dramatically involved him in the most powerful socio-historical currents of the twentieth century: Marxist revolution, exile, politics, the sexual revolution, and the poshlost of the universities an... summary from source:
Biography of Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov
10506 words, approx. 35 pages
Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov wrote novels, short stories, poems, translations, and literary criticism. His novels firmly established him as one of the best stylists of the twentieth century. In 1955 the overwhelming success of Nabokov's novel...
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 Pale Fire Information
2,761 words, approx. 9 pages
Pale Fire (1962) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, his fourteenth and his fifth written in English. The Nabokov authority Brian Boyd has called it "Nabokov's most perfect novel".[1] It has drawn a great deal of critical attention, with commentators...
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 The Antioch Review Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic Art of Discovery. (Books).
06/22/2002: 327 words, approx. 1 pages Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic Art of Discovery by Brian Boyd. Princeton University Press, 303 pp., $45.00 ($16.95 paper). In Nabokov's satirical novel Pale Fire a poem by a murdered American author, John Shade, is analyzed by an egocentric critic, Charles Kinbote. Boyd offers... summary from source:
Parnassus : Poetry in Review Into the Pale
01/01/2005: 14,405 words, approx. 48 pages I had read in Wittgenstein that the world is a multitude of factsall that the case is-and that talking about what isn't the case amounts to metaphysical mouth-flapping. On this point Wittgenstein was stern: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Good... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Sensational Arts News! You Won't Find These Hot Squibs Anywhere
7/17/2005: 2,904 words, approx. 10 pages In a way, it goes back to the spirit of the early Edgy Enthusiast columns, which were numbered riffs on cultural obsessions. Playlists, even—dare I say it? —pre-blog blogging. Not really: but …. 1 Did you know that Jorn Barger, the guy generally known... summary from source:
The New York Observer Sensational Arts News! You Won't Find These Hot Squibs Anywhere
7/17/2005: 2,978 words, approx. 10 pagesThink of this week's column as a play list for the overeducated, the media-saturated, the culturally jaded: things you may have missed, things you ought not miss, things you still can see and hear. Things "arts journalists" have not covered. Cultural news for those people...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Steven Bruhm
9,346 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Bruhm analyzes the function of Charles Kinbote's homosexuality in Pale Fire.
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Critical Essay by Brian Boyd
3,535 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Boyd pursues the problem of internal authorship in Pale Fire.
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Critical Essay by June Perry Levine
643 words, approx. 2 pages
The structure of Pale Fire provides its meaning and delight…. [Most critics] have used it as a way of unraveling the "plot"—what happens among the three principal characters, John Shade, Charles Kinbote, and Jakob Gradus—and, therefore, have approached the poem and commentary which comprise Pale Fire as separate entities to be studied as two units and then connected, usually by having either poet Shade or commentator Kinbote assigned the authorship of the whole. (p. 103) I...
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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov | |
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