loppear reviewed Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Everyman's library)
Wish for more layers of wrinkles
4 stars
Absurdly wonderful, manipulative without being a mystery, adventurous and so mundane.
Hardcover
Published Jan. 1, 1968 by Rowohlt, Reinbek.
Fahles Feuer.
4 stars
(1 review)
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.