''Vladimir Nabokov's Comic Quest for Reality' - Nottingham eTheses

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77/ Page Stegner, Escape into Aesthetics, pp. 125f.
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Nina Berberova, "The Mechanics of Pale Fire",
For Nabokov on his seventieth birthday,
TriQuarterly, 17 (Winter 1970), pp. 154f.
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cp. Andrew Field: "... the title as it appears
in the Shakespeare phrase is meant to refer...
to the less evident factor of the bonds and
interplay of light and reflection between the
novel's disparate bodies... "
Andrew Field, "Pale Fire, the labyrinth of a
great novel", pp. 18-19.
There are other such parallels: Charles gets
married on the same day as Shade (though thirty
years later), and the date of his arrival in
America coincides with the date of Shade's
heart attack (17th October 1959).
Vladimir Nabokov in an Interview conducted by
Alfred Appel, Jr., Nabokov, The Man and His Work,
p. 29.
He is called "a clockwork man" (152) and "our
automatic man" (279).
cp. p. 135: "We feel doom, in the image of Gradus,
eating away miles and miles of 'feigned remoteness'
between him and poor Shade. "
Andrew Field, "Pale Fire, The labyrinth of a
great novel", p. 32.
Loc. cit.
Page Stegner, Escape into Aesthetics, p. 128.
87 Loc. cit.
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Vladimir Nabokov in an Interview with Allene
Talmey, Vogue, Christmas number 1969, reprinted
in Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions, p. 154.
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