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	Pale Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pale Fire (1962) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, his fourteenth in total and fifth in English.
		Pale Fire is at first glance the publication of a 999-line poem in four cantos ("Pale Fire") by the famous American poet John Shade.
		Alfred Appel's annotations to Lolita also address Pale Fire; instead of a "note on the text", Appel reproduces a lengthy quotation from Kinbote's preface.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pale_Fire (751 words)

	Folio Books: Review of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
		Pale Fire is the name of a 999-line poem in four cantos by the distinguished American poet John Shade, published posthumously in a lovingly prepared edition with a foreword and detailed commentary by the Zemblan literary scholar Charles Kinbote.
		Pale Fire is also the name of the novel by Nabokov in which the poem is written by Shade and annotated by Kinbote, who are Nabokov's creations.
		Pale Fire is thus a complex, and ultimately rather touching, demonstration of the way people have of reading their lives into books and reading books into their lives, like Kinbote.
	community.wow.net /folio/Pale_Fire.html (844 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Pale Fire
		Pale Fire conjures up the unreal world of Zembla, and one can't help but consider Zembla in terms of the transformation of Russia into the Soviet Union.
		Pale Fire is considered to be one of the antecedents to Post-modernism.
		Perhaps for this feature alone, Pale Fire enjoys a prominent status on college reading lists devoted to "Post-modernism." The novel also appeared as number 53 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century (Lolita was #4).
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/pale/about.html (439 words)

	The Arion Press Catalogue: "Pale Fire" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, with a frontispiece portrait of the author by Andrew Hoyem, 1994.
		Considered the highest artistic achievement of Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962) was written in a complex form that satirizes academic literary analysis and has two fictitious authors: a mad professor named Charles Kinbote and a poet named John Shade.
		The poem Pale Fire by Shade, of 999 lines, is explicated in a commentary by Kinbote, and, when read together, the story of the poet and his family are merged with the fantastical lives of his critic, perhaps an exiled king and perhaps an assassin.
	www.arionpress.com /catalog/043.htm (256 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 John Shade's poem "Pale Fire", which together form the text of Nabokov's novel.
		Brian Boyd's book Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery thoroughly explores the authorship and interpretive options, eventually settling on a thesis involving intervention in the text by both Shade and his daughter Hazel after their respective deaths.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Kinbote (277 words)

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		Shade provides the pale fire that lessens this coldness that Kinbote feels; it is his house that is “ablaze” to provide him with occasional solace and identity (96).
		This pale fire means something different to each individual character, but the one similarity is that they strive for their fires to burn, to be bright and exuberant, yet each one is aware that their personal fires are rather dimly lit to a pale glow.
		While Pale Fire is ultimately a tribute to Shade’s life and work, Kinbote is not merely interested in Shade as a “genius.” Shade’s poem, in fact, is not a masterpiece, but Kinbote, as a commentator, is blinded by his love for Shade.
	academic.bowdoin.edu /courses/f02/eng015/home/responses/r4/index.shtml (1810 words)

	Pale Fire
		Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel, Pale Fire, is widely considered a forerunner of postmodernism and a prime example of the literature of exhaustion.
		However, this desire for closure is rapidly exhausted, as the reader realizes that each point of comparison, each link that is pursued, only takes him or her deeper and deeper into the open-ended web of Nabokov's design.
		Pale Fire instantiates many of the formal mechanisms of hypertext--its use of disparate materials connected together through an associative logic of links and anchors--only in order to signal the dangers of using these mechanisms to pursue the same old dreams of univocity and fixed meaning.
	eserver.org /elab/hfl0244.html (732 words)

	Dowling on Pale Fire
		Shade's "death," in short, is simply the moment at which the poem Pale Fire comes to an end (with one missing line, which would have been, as Kinbote observes, identical to the first line and a completion of an elaborately symmetrical 1000-line poem).
		The conclusive evidence that the narrator of Pale Fire can't be either Shade or Kinbote comes at the very end of the sequence that has him arriving in the United States.
		Disa has, of course, become a character in a novel (Pale Fire), and that is the fate that awaits Kinbote himself as his commentary draws to an end and the work goes out to a large anonymous public that neither Kinbote nor his creator will live to see.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~wcd/palenarr.htm (2272 words)

	Pale Fire Discussion Questions
		John Burt Foster claims that, with Pale Fire, “Nabokov has thus created another fictional vehicle for airing his views on the modernist canon,” basing much of his argument on lines 364-74 of the poem and the fact that the words in question can all be traced to Eliot’s Four Quartets.
		Yet, Pale Fire’s reputation largely precedes itself; probably few people read it expecting Evelina, and I would imagine that those that do either restart the book (if only in their minds) once they begin to get the picture or immediately and disappointedly hurl it into a dumpster.
		Pale Fire is weird, strange, discursive, maddening, etc., but if you go into the reading of it with full knowledge that it is strange (see epigram B above), is the experience of reading the text a strange one?
	www2.msstate.edu /~jwb4/pale_fire.html (1122 words)

	Amazon.com: Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery.: Books: Brian Boyd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In a now-famous article, Mary McCarthy called Pale Fire "a jack-in-the-box, a Fabergé gem, a clockwork toy, a chess problem, an infernal machine, a trap to catch reviewers..." But she also thought it was a thing of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth.
		After reading Pale Fire twice, I naively thought that i understood it (yes that Bodkin in the University was suspicious, and yes the existence of internation thug Gradus i had previosly questioned) but i was only approaching the intitial layerings of this beatifully layered world.
		Pale Fire - that book of mirrors and riddles, the first to acknowledge that T.S. Eliot spelled backwards is "toilets" has finally met a brain'd boy clever enough to come up with many of the solutions to the most puzzling of novels and generous enough to share them in readable prose with others.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691009597?v=glance (2952 words)

	The Herald, Sharon, Pa. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pale’s son, Yanne Pale, was asleep on the couch when the smoke alarm sounded, said Greenville Fire Chief Walter P. "Chad" Sankey.
		Fire was confined to the computers in the basement and smoke and water damaged the rest of the two-story house, Sankey said.
		Cause of the fire was undetermined, the fire chief said.
	www.sharon-herald.com /localnews/recentnews/0102/ln022701c.html (241 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		...Despite all this brilliance, Pale Fire is a total wreck, and for only one reason: it isn't funny, and it's supposed to be...
		...Pale Fire has all this and also the additional virtue of taking cognizance of the state of affairs of The Novel...
		...The poem is called Pale Fire and is an autobiographical work written during the last weeks of the poet's life...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V34I5P87-1.htm (1868 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror: On the Stage: Pale Fire
		Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This” (debuted in 1987) takes place in the lower Manhattan loft of Anna, a dancer mourning the accidental death of her roommate and muse, a gifted young dancer named Robbie who had been shepherding her through the transition from dancer to choreographer.
		Pale leaves as suddenly as he arrived, but not before igniting the spark that will inspire Anna’s truest work.
		Used sparingly and carefully integrated as not to disturb the flow of the play, McNamee’s dances (performed by the liquid-spined Bethany Scheer and her able partner Preston Mui on the night reviewed) are haunting and evocative, as is James McVay’s original music.
	www.smmirror.com /volume3/issue37/pale_fire.asp (487 words)

	WAG: Re-Reading Nabokov
		Pale Fire is a poem within a novel, or a novel within a poem, depending on how you look at it.
		Since Pale Fire was published in 1962, readers have been debating a battery of critical interpretations.
		In addition to Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery, Brian Boyd is the author of Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years.
	www.thewag.net /books/nabokov2.htm (1404 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 appears to be an edition of a poem written by John Shade with a forward, commentary, and an index written
		Nabokov's Pale Fire is a fictitious edition of a poem by John Shade with commentary by an egocentric critic, Charles Kinbote.
		As Pale Fire itself demonstrates, art and belief are the effects of ambiguity and coincidence.
	www.dactyl.org /directors/vna/boyd.htm (286 words)

	Brain-Juice.Com \| Pale Fire (1962)
		Classifying Pale Fire as a novel seems in some ways inadequate, for the experimental book is unlike anything that came before it.
		Pale Fire is divided into four sections: a foreword from Kinbote, the poem itself, Kinbote’s commentary and line-by-line glosses, and an index.
		This unconventional narrative technique, which blurs the distinction between the teller and the tale, has led to the novel’s reputation as a precursor of postmodernism.
	www.brain-juice.com /cgi-bin/show_wok.cgi?p_id=27&w_id=96 (153 words)

	Suggestions for reading "Pale Fire"? - The Book Forum
		Enema, I am currently reading "Pale Fire." Since I do not want to ruin the spine of his book flipping back and forth between the "poem" and the "commentary" I am looking for recommended ways of reading this work.
		Pale Fire is very easy to summarise for what is presumably a very complex book.
		In summary it surrounds the 999-line poem 'Pale Fire', the last work of an American poet named John Shade, with a foreword and commentary by his 'friend' and neighbour Charles Kinbote.
	www.thebookforum.com /forums/showthread.php?p=52307 (1246 words)

	pale fire
		(Pale Fire can be found in most public libraries and is available online from Amazon.com and from Barnes & Noble.
		Pale Fire is one of the most singular and unusual novels ever published; no synopsis could hope to suggest its ingenious layers of meaning.
		The core of the novel is a poem of 999 lines entitled Pale Fire, by American poet John Francis Shade.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /nabokov/wpale.htm (302 words)

	Amazon.com: Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth)): Books: Vladimir Nabokov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired.
		"Pale Fire" is the tale of a pedantic, psychotic, misogynistic literary critic who attempts to write an overly-elaborate critique of a poem written by a recently deceased scholar.
		Pale Fire is a wonderfully enjoyable work of fiction, although it is not in the form of a traditional novel.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679410775?v=glance (2560 words)

	WCD on Pale Fire
		Elements in the summary may be wrong -- Pale Fire is immensely complex, and I haven't read it in almost four years -- but it will give you an idea.
		He is convinced that he is the only person who can do an authoritative edition of Pale Fire -- he is the only one, after all, who knows the "story of Zembla" that is its secret subject -- and so he begins his commentary.
		He begins, as usual with older-fashioned scholarly introductions of this sort, with an account of the poem's composition: "Pale Fire, a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety-nine lines, divided into four cantos, was composed by John Francis Shade" (etc).
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~wcd/palefire.htm (1236 words)

	Quicquid: Once Again Pale Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Even so, I don't put Pale Fire on the "return to the shelf" pile while pondering for long its deeper meanings or what there is in it that's worth retaining.
		Frankly, I haven't read Pale Fire since early college (almost 8 years ago, egad I am getting old!) so I don't remember whatever I understood of it (which was probably minimal) anymore.
		It's certainly not 1, though it might be taken by some to be so; and while the main character (editor, commenter, narrator, or what you will) is pathetic and lame, though perhaps not entirely uninteresting, he is clearly gay, and so is the novel.
	quicquid.blogs.com /quicquid/2005/06/once_again_pale.html (436 words)

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	Robert Fulford's column about Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery
		Among other things, Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery is a monument to a brilliant scholar's persistent love affair with a book and its author.
		Nevertheless, Pale Fire has remained central to Boyd's thinking, and he realized a few years ago that he had more to say about it.
		Those changes are at the heart of his exuberant new work, and even if we decline to embrace all of his theories, we can only admire the scrupulous and intelligent mind that has formulated them.
	www.robertfulford.com /PaleFire.html (965 words)

	important work - pale fire notes - commentary canto one
		"pale and diaphanous final phase": another echo of the title which K admits "cannot be regarded as a direct echo of my narrative".
		"Pale" - Pale Fire etc, "green" - the green door and room in C.130 etc, "moth" - mirrors, Gradus ("batlike moth" on 123), butterflies (everywhere) etc, so this is an image that collects several motifs (a nexus of patterns?) nominally linked to the moon (which has served that same purpose for a multitude of artists).
		Graves says, "But principally the alder is the tree of fire, the power of fire to free the earth from water; and the alder-branch by which Bran was recognised at the /Câd Goddeu/ is a token of resurrection -- its buds are set in a spiral.
	www.importantwork.com /text/palefire/commentary1.html (16440 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Pale Fire
		On one hand, Shade is a character within a fictional workbut "Pale Fire" is the poem that Shade wrote.
		Plenty of books feature writers as characters, but in Pale Fire we happen to read what the character wrote.
		On the other hand, Nabokov is the author of Pale Fire, and the poem "Pale Fire" as well.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/pale/section4.html (1328 words)

	Nabokov's Pale Fire
		Shade at his most playful, as here, is also, we will discover later in the poem, Shade not far from his most philosophical, disclosing his delight in the combinations of the world around him, sensing what almost seems the inherent playfulness of things, apprehending and reshaping his world with an answering spirit of play.
		As "Pale Fire" shows us, he is stability itself, living all his life in his parents' home, in the same comfortable small academic town, marrying his childhood sweetheart and in forty years never wavering in his love.
		In "Pale Fire" Shade presents the story of his life as one lifelong quest to explore the "inadmissible abyss" of death, a quest pursued with passion and play, stinging skepticism and quiet trust.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/boyd-pale.html (2379 words)

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