Nabokov's "Pale Fire"
Subtitle: The Magic of Artistic Discovery
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780691089577
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Comparative Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; General
First sentence: The second paragraph continues in the same apparently bloodless critical vein but its pulse soon starts to twitch erratically: "The short (166 lines) Canto One, with all those amusing birds and parhelia, occupies thirteen cards.