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Just finished the Foreword 1) Didn't realise Pale Fire isn't a real poem 2) Didn't realise the Ruskis did postmodernism (this must be a very early predecessor to postmodernism?). 3) Protagonist is a vegetarian, noice 4) Great prose, much appreciated the_homemaster fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Aug 7, 2016 |
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^ Cheers for link Heath posted:An important thing to note about this book is that there is no one good way to read it. You can read the foreword, then the poem in its entirety and then read the commentary (which is how I did it,) or you can read the poem and refer to the commentary line by line, or read the poem first, and then the foreword, and then the commentary, etc. Each method is going to produce a very different interpretation of events as they proceed. The book is intricate and brilliant and I've never encountered another story quite like it. I've decided to do what the narrator suggested, which is commentary, then poem + commentary, then commentary.
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fridge corn posted:By making his commentator a lecherous paedophile, homosexual, and vegetarian, is Nabokov enhancing the derisory aspect of his satire, or is it simply characterisation? 🤔 Nothing wrong with being a vegetarian!
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