Pale Fire is extraordinarily difficult to classify and even harder to compare to other works of literature. It is perhaps Nabokov's most original novel in terms of form and structure, though in its underlying concern with creation and the literary process it is part of a tradition which goes back to Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759-1767). It has also been compared to the works of Jorge Luis Borges in its self-conscious artifice and its.....
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