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Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

Start date: August 1, 2019

Finish date: August 30, 2019

Why we're reading this: August 2019 New School Classic Group Read
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Oct 04, 2014 Melanti rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books, 2014, poetry, e-book

Now I feel like I should go back and reread Pnin and see if there's any overlap other than the couple of brief cameos.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this one since I'm not normally a big poetry fan, (I always feel like Mrs. Z. from this book - "The other piece/I could not understand. I mean the sense./Because, of course, the sound -- But I'm so dense!" ) and I often zone out when reading professional literary reviews or analysis - so I was either going to really love this or or really hate th ...more

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Aug 10, 2019 Katy rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: did-not-finish, all-time_100_novels

Definitely not for me.

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Mar 11, 2014 Nadine rated it really liked it

Shelves: group-reads, read-in-2014, ebooks-2014

Das Buch bewegt sich auf mehreren Ebenen. Zum einen das 999zeilige Gedicht des fiktiven Autors John Shade, der im Gedicht unter anderem den tragischen Tod seiner Tochter verarbeitet. Zum anderen wird ein Kommentar zum Gedicht nachgestellt, den der ebenfalls fiktive Charles Kinbote verfasst hat. Darin analysiert er das Gedicht, fügt wissenswertes über das Privatleben seines Freundes und Nachbarn Shade ein, aber er läßt es sich auch nicht nehmen, die Geschichte eines Königs aus einem fiktiven, abe ...more

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