SOURCE: “Singularity and the Double's Pale Ghost: From Despair to Pale Fire,” in Nabokov and the Novel, Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 97-118.
In the following essay, Pifer argues that characters who appear to be doubles of each other in Nabokov's fictions actually are not.
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