Pale Fire by Nabokov

The debates surrounding Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Pale Fire" (1962) began the moment this multidimensional book, full of mysteries, false solutions, subtexts, and an engaging game with the reader, was published. Brian Boyd, the unparalleled expert on the life and works of the writer, in his detailed analysis of the book invites readers to partake in the magic of discovery and to find a new dimension in "Pale Fire" that changes the perception of its content and of Nabokov himself.

The second, revised and significantly expanded edition of this study, recognized as a model of evidence-based literary studies, is accompanied by an address from the author to the Russian reader.