Vladimir Nabokov´s Pale Fire, first published in 1989 is considered to be one of the first Post-modern novels in the English speaking world, primarily because of its narrative structure; the novel is written as a poem with 999-lines by the fictitious writer John Shade. ... Furthermore, it seems that Kinbote writes this tale/commentary to make him self "unforgettable" almost in the same sense that Humbert Humbert, in another famous work by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita, does. The foreword and commentary are far more extensive than the poem itself and this only underlines the fact that Ch...

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