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	Pale Fire
		Kinbote, who claims to be a scholar from the country of Zembla, relates how he befriended the American poet John Shade.
		Kinbote's commentary gradually transforms the heterogenous elements of the text into a labyrinth of dazzling complexity.
		Kinbote's status as a reliable narrator is subverted early in the book; by the end of the Forward, we suspect him to be something of an opportunist who has made off with Shade's manuscript before the grieving widow can gather her wits.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /elab/hfl0244.html (732 words)

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		Kinbote’s fantastic story of a gay king and his attempted escape from political revolution seems to have no ties to Shade’s aesthetically oriented poem, and Kinbote’s analytic commentary is diluted by his self promotion and inflated sense of importance.
		Kinbote uses stories from his native land to hint at what he had to accomplish to gain freedom, but on a deeper level there are other things that he also is chained to, and perhaps feels repressed by.
		The fact that Kinbote is gay “Oleg walked in front: his shapely buttocks encased in tight indigo cotton moved alertly.” is one of the chain that inhibits his freedom, at the time homosexuality was not looked upon favorably, and most were not allowed to practice as they wished.
	academic.bowdoin.edu /courses/f02/eng015/home/responses/r3/index.shtml (1730 words)

	Charles Kinbote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Kinbote is the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire.
		Kinbote, one of the great comic characters of modern fiction, appears to be the scholarly author of the Foreword, Commentary and Index surrounding the text of the late John Shade's poem "Pale Fire", which together form the text of Nabokov's novel.
		Kinbote's "distant northern land" may or may not exist in the world of the novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Kinbote (305 words)

	Pale Fire
		The Foreword, extensive Commentary, and Index are by Shade's self-appointed biographer, Charles Kinbote[?], who is Shade's neighbor in the small college town of New Wye.
		His intent, rather, is to tell the story of Charles Xavier, the deposed king of the "distant northern land" of Zembla.
		Brian Boyd[?] recently published a much-discussed study calling attention to the strong ghostly influence of Hazel Shade[?], the poet's suicided daughter, on the commentary as well as the poem itself.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Pale_Fire.html (211 words)

	Editorial - Man creates God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Kinbote, the supposed author of the forward and commentary, is unquestionably a homosexual.
		Kinbote states, in his commentary, "She had weaned her husband not only from the Episcopal Church of his fathers, but from all forms of sacramental worship" (224).
		As the novel progresses, Kinbote repeatedly tries to influence Shade's writing with his stories of Zembla and Charles the Beloved, which could easily be taken as a metaphor for Kinbote's attempted influence on Shade's sexuality; he is luring him into the homosexual world, where Shade longs to be but is too afraid to go.
	theeditorial.awardspace.com /mancreatesgod.html (1363 words)

	Pale Fire
		Kinbote has taken it upon himself to oversee its publication, telling readers that it lacks only one line.
		The reader soon realizes that Kinbote is Charles Xavier, living incognito--or that he is insane and his identification with Charles and perhaps all of Zembla are his delusions.
		They may make a case that Kinbote is parasitic on Shade, or that Shade's poem is mediocre and Kinbote, the inventor of Zembla, is a true genius.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pa/pale_fire.html (405 words)

	Yannicke Chupin
		Charles Kinbote is a professor whose only soothing feeling upon landing at New Wye is to become the neighbour of the famous American poet, John Shade.
		Kinbote is a scholar trained to basic texts’ analyses and his appreciation of the poem is codified by his previous experiences with literature.
		Kinbote is a critic able to interrupt a line such as “Of the stiff vane so often visited” to single out its adverb (“often”) and derive from it a three-pages-long soliloquy on unhappiness: (“Line 62: often/ Often, almost nightly, throughout the spring 1959, I had feared for my life.
	www.dur.ac.uk /postgraduate.english/chupin.htm (3743 words)

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		It's all supposedly written by an apparently demented academic, Charles Kinbote, ехсерt for the роеm, written by his former colleague (and object of both child-like and sexual desire?), Jоhn Shade.
		Kinbote, Shade, аnd others discussed in the Foreword and Commentary are, of соursе, inventions of the novel's author, Vladimir Nabokov.
		Even if fоllоwing Kinbote's recommendation to read the Commentary first, then to read thе poem, there will still be quite a lot of rеаd to re-read, tо fix certain details more firmly in the mind understanding how they appear at various points throughout the poem and its commentary.
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	Cult Movies: Pale Fire - $11.16
		Kinbote, Shаdе, and others discussed in the Foreword and Commentary are, of соursе, inventions of the novel's author, Vladimir Nаbокоv.
		The larger theme is of Kinbote's native Zеmblа, the revolution thаt took place there and led to the flight of many.
		This Рrоfеssоr Kinbote is writing the commentary from his point of view which is rather оbsuсеrd. Because of this, you don't know if what hе tells you is true оr not.
	www.cultmoviesstore.com /tvr30363739373233343230.html (1530 words)

	Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Kinbote is a refugee from the Eastern European state of Zembla, where a Russian backed revolution has just ousted the monarchy.
		The assassin accidentally kills Shade instead of Kinbote, and that is why Kinbote sets out to edit the poem, initially a disappointment when he sees that it is autobiographical not a Zemblan epic after all.
		Kinbotes obsession with relationg the poem to events in Zembla also tends to make the reader place less confidence in what he says.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6422/rev0421.html (488 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Pale Fire Study Guide - Major Themes
		Kinbote really ceases to be a critic and he creates his own work of creative literature, presenting a romantic portrait of an exiled king and a crystal land.
		Charles Kinbote is really at the center of this theme, as one of the novel's plot elements forces the question of whether or not Charles Kinbote is really King Charles the Beloved of Zembla.
		Charles the Beloved's exile is described as far more political, while the cultural displacement experienced by Charles Kinbote is much like Humbert Humbert's bewildering experiences in Lolita as a continental European in 1950s America.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/pale/themes.html (930 words)

	WAG: Re-Reading Nabokov
		Charles Kinbote is a professor and admirer of the poet who believes he is king of a "remote northern land" called Zembla.
		Kinbote would have us believe that he has escaped from a coup in Zembla during a series of sensational adventures straight out of a boy’s book (in, fact, he cannot conceal a certain overfondness for little boys).
		Kinbote seeks consolation in his exile, and surcease from the loss of his sanity, by enumerating his Zemblan adventures to the bemused and sometimes impatient poet.
	www.thewag.net /books/nabokov2.htm (1404 words)

	Ghost Story
		For although at first glance Kinbote's hilariously self-involved Commentary seems not to share the flimsiest connection to Shade's highly personal poem (which most centrally laments the suicide of his daughter), Boyd digs up profound subterranean links between the seemingly disjunct halves of the novel.
		Kinbote's preposterous assertion that the poem ''Pale Fire'' was somehow inspired by his daring escape from the remote arctic kingdom of Zembla is part of a paranoid fantasy actually triggered by Shade -- from the dead.
		Is this a clue that Kinbote is an invention of the poet Shade?
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/03/05/reviews/000305.05zalewst.html (1204 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Pale Fire Study Guide
		Kinbote is the sole "editor" of John Shade's poem "Pale Fire." Kinbote notes that this has caused some problems among his jealous academic colleagues.
		Though Kinbote is a literature professor, his colleagues don't believe that he is academically qualified or emotionally stable enough to function as sole editor.
		Charles Kinbote mentions Sybil Shade in his Foreword, but Canto Two is the first time that John Shade mentions his wife.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/pale/section3.html (1795 words)

	Pale Fire Canto 1 Presponses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Anyway, this narrator, Charles, Kinbote (at least he has a name), is using John Shade's poem as a jumping off point to talk about his own nationalism and obsessive quirks--like spying on his neighbors and knowing/making up a lot of information.
		Kinbote seems to have a strong interest in the poem and I also was wondering if he had some association with the poem.
		Kinbote’s fascination with the poem perhaps leads me to believe that Kinbote had a strong hand in the poem, accounting for his pride in it.
	www.payton.cps.k12.il.us /karafiolp/strangefiction/nabokov1.htm (2554 words)

	MonkeyNotes-Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary
		Charles describes the qualities of each canto, mentions the existence of alternate sections (pieces the poet had not quite discarded), and complains about the amusement park next door that is very loud.
		Charles declines and says he is expecting some boys over at his house, for a "little seminar" and some table tennis.
		Charles lauds Shade's imperfections and poetically states: "He was his own cancellation." He treasures the picture of Shade and himself, taken by a young man staying with him.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmPaleFire11.asp (818 words)

	Dowling on Pale Fire
		For Kinbote, it is when his commentary and notes begin, as he says, "petering out," and he realizes that he will have no more existence when the commentary is done.
		In Kinbote's exiled-king fantasy, Grey becomes "Gradus," a dull-witted assassin who is sent by the Extremist party to kill the exiled king of Zembla.
		Thus, too, "C.X.K." (Charles Xavier Kinbote) sees the lightning that strikes the house in the Times story as belonging to tormented souls because he has, under the influence of a poem by John Shade, come to think of all forms of electricity as embodiments of the souls of the dead.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~wcd/palenarr.htm (2272 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire: A Novel at Epinions.com
		Nabokov's protagonist is Charles Kinbote, a colleague of Shade's at the New England university where they both teach.
		Kinbote, a Nabokov character if there ever was one, is very much akin to Lolita's Humbert: an isolated intellectual, given to distant critiques and odd passions, a foreigner (as Nabokov himself was) surrounded by the fancies of the dull-minded suburban citizenry.
		The entwining storylines found in Kinbote's footnotes deal with Kinbote's take of the escape of the overthrown king of his native Zembla, the story which he'd thought Shade's poem would summarize, and the story of Shade's murder and the two men's friendship.
	www.epinions.com /content_107704651396 (401 words)

	ISBN 0679723420 - Pale Fire - The Student Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In spirit its closest modern relatives are Alan Sokal's fraudulent 1996 article (parody) in the journal "Social Text" and a sendup of MLA procedings in "Postmodern Pooh." It consists of a foreward, a poem in four cantos, commentary, and an index.
		It's all supposedly written by an apparently demented academic, Charles Kinbote, except for the poem, written by his former colleague (and object of both child-like and sexual desire?), John Shade.
		It's also a mystery and a puzzle, pulling us into the world of Kinbote and feeding us clues about the place so that we can form a picture of it, understand why Shade is dead and Kinbote is holed-up in a motel to finish his commentary.
	studentstore.com /0679723420 (1094 words)

	k-punk: NABOKOV AND HYPERTEXT
		Kinbote's 'reading' of Shade's poem is a kind of delirial appropriation: he insists that 'Pale Fire' is in fact an allegory about none other than Kinbote himself.
		Kinbote is a classic unreliable narrator whose account Nabokov subtly undercuts but never fully undermines.
		The gaps and ludicrous rationalizations in Kinbote's account are enough to radically question his credibility (there are some wonderful scenes in which it is clear to the readers, if not to Kinbote himself, that Shade is exasperated by him to the point of white-hot rage).
	k-punk.abstractdynamics.org /archives/001744.html (790 words)

	genius and plausibility
		There is no "Charles Kinbote," not even reduced to a Russian scholar named Botkin; the events at Wordsmith College recounted in the commentary are non-events made up by Shade, who, ex hypothesi, did not die: he lives on, as author of, in fact, Pale Fire the novel.
		He posits, and argues with his customary clarity and wealth of textual evidence, that Kinbote is after all a "real" character (that is, not invented by Shade), but that Shade (who is indeed murdered) survives as a spirit after death and influences Kinbote's commentary in a number of complex and significant ways.
		A close reading of the novel reveals the likelihood that "Kinbote" is in fact Vseslav Botkin, an insane Russian scholar, and "Zembla" a cracked mirror of his vanished homeland.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /nabokov/morris1.htm (2177 words)

	Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov — Ergo Sum
		In a Foreword written by Charles Kinbote we are introduced to this form and given some details about Pale Fire's author, John Francis Shade.
		Kinbote, Shade, and others discussed in the Foreword and Commentary are, of course, inventions of the novel's author, Vladimir Nabokov.
		The larger theme is of Kinbote's native Zembla, the revolution that took place there and led to the flight of many.
	ergo-sum.us /Members/cmcurtin/pale-fire/view (388 words)

	Nabokov's Pale Fire appears to be an edition of a poem written by John Shade with a forward, commentary, and an index ...
		Nabokov's Pale Fire is a fictitious edition of a poem by John Shade with commentary by an egocentric critic, Charles Kinbote.
		Boyd then looks at the patterns occurring between Shade's and Kinbote's contributions, which have led several critics to argue that the whole of Pale Fire was written by one deceptive meta-author.
		Now he claims it was Kinbote possessed by the ghosts of Shade and Shade's daughter.
	www.dactyl.org /directors/vna/boyd.htm (286 words)

	Canto II Presponses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		I was wondering if the name "Charles Kinbote" was significant, and creepily enough there appears to be a geneticist at Harvard who has the same name.
		Kinbote pulled a neat little trick in the latter part of this book, making himself more like the King Charles character, much less annoying and much more credible.
		Her sudden acquiescence to Kinbote at the end seemed incredibly out of character, even if she was emotionally distraught.
	www.payton.cps.k12.il.us /karafiolp/strangefiction/nabokov2.htm (3549 words)

	Pale Fire - Nabokov's Pale Fire
		Kinbote tells us that Shade was "born July 5, 1898, died July 21, 1959" - he was alive for 61 years and 16 days (13).
		Kinbote, too, has an affinity for doubles, as revealed in the foreword: "nother tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement.
		Shade's "attachments" seems an oblique reference to Kinbote himself, adding to Kinbote's presumption that not only is an author's work incomprehensible without adding a critic's eye, but that the author's life was, too, tempered by Kinbote's presence.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=21881 (737 words)

	Stochastic Bookmark: Pale Fire: A Primer
		On first impression (which is, oddly, what the First Edition proclaims itself), Kinbote is an expatriate scholar, unfamiliar with American customs and mores; on closer inspection, he suffers from paranoid delusions of grandeur, and may actually be an anagrammatic academic from another department.
		But Kinbote possesses so much privileged knowledge about his subject that critics proposed that either Shade made up Kinbote as an excuse to adumbrate his poem, or that Kinbote invented Shade as a vehicle for his story.
		While this sketch cannot do justice to her, I find this argumentation less convincing, and prefer to think that rather than some latent identity surfacing, Kinbote constitutes a reconstruction of identity eradicated by the stroke, making use of whatever shards and fragments of memory scattered by the trauma can be reassembled.
	nnyhav.blogspot.com /2005/09/pale-fire-primer.html (608 words)

	Pale Fire Character Analysis
		Charles Kinbote or Charles II, known as Charles Xavier the Beloved, the last king of Zembla.
		As Kinbote, he is the author of the critical notes to Pale Fire, a 999-line autobiographical poem written by John Shade.
		Kinbote, a visiting professor at Wordsmith University, befriends Shade, hoping to induce the poet to write a great poem about Zembla and its kings.
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/pale-fire (158 words)

	A Parisian Midsummer's Night Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This short "play" was inspired as a comment on a "not a sonnet" by one Paris Flammonde who, in tones both bombastic and pompous, used his verse to condemn his readers as hollow men who did not properly appreciate his vision.
		Flammonde to be a superior commentator on the condition of humankind, literature, and such like, although I do admit to a modicum of regret that he has yet to make more than veiled allusions to the sources on Zemblan mythology to which I have turned his attention.
		Kinbote glances at the only available seat, which is directly next to Blanche DuBois, and remains standing.
	www.tiac.net /~cri/1997/paris.html (486 words)

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