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title: "Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty"
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# Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty

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## Customer Reviews

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    Classic
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2016*

I was prepared for this to be complex, multi-layered, dense and allusive, which it is. What I didn't expect was that it would be quite so funny. Kinbote is a hilariously pompous buffoon to rank alongside Ignatius J. Reilly, although he also, particularly at the end, displays glimmerings of self-awareness which turn him into a rather tragic figure.It's like a house of mirrors which defies attempts to establish who or what is "real". The wikipedia page lists any number of theories as to which characters are aliases or aspects of others, which is fascinating but, I feel, misses the point: the book is satirising critics and their over-elaborate analyses.By the way, Mary McCarthy's painfully pretentious introduction almost put me off reading it at all, but afterwards I found out that she was a noted satirist in her own right - maybe her introduction is part of the joke...?

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Quality description of 2nd hand?
  

*by E***G on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2021*

Can't remember what the exact quality the seller said, but I think it was a little over stated. It's got all the pages, but they are dogeared in places and the cover is bent. It was cheap, so not over priced as such.Book is a masterpiece. We're not here to write a book review though.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    One man's madness ...
  

*by B***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 May 2008*

PALE FIRE explores the wayward mind of Charles Kinbote, a man brimming with outrageous delusions.Firstly, he believes himself to be the exiled King of Zembla (Zembla being a "distant northern land" in the vain of Hyperborea or, say, Avalon).Secondly, Kinbote is obsessed with an old poet named John Shade, who just happens to live across the street near the college campus, and it's with Shade's latest and last poem that the novel begins, a poem which Kinote utterly misinterprets as being about his life in the kingdom of Zembla and his daring escape to America from a plot to assassinate him.The result of all this delusion is a humorous, puzzling, and elegantly imaginative account of one man's insanity, a madness that turns out to be strangely endearing, and which during its exposure invites the reader to decipher the truth of what really happened.Concisely extravagant and weirdly exotic - some say Nabokov's finest novel, some may be perturbed by the foibles of the writer - overall an intriguing mix of fantasy and reality, truth and lies.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
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