Pale Fire Summary
Vladimir Nabokov

Biography EssayVladimir Nabokov, one of the most important world novelists of the twentieth century, was almost unique in changing languages in mid career, from Russian to English. Not identified with... Read more

Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian émigré who began writing in English in middle age, is considered one of the most brilliant and inventive writers of the twentieth century. A trilingua... Read more

Vladimir Nabokov is one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century--and a thoroughly international one whose work is as carefully read in France, Germany, Japan, and Finland as in his ho... Read more

Critical Essay by June Perry Levine The structure of Pale Fire provides its meaning and delight…. [Most critics] have used it as a way of unraveling the "plot"—what happen... Read more

In the following essay, Boyd pursues the problem of internal authorship in Pale Fire. … which, I hope, sufficiently approximates the text, or is at least faithful to its spirit —P... Read more