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Роман Владимира Набокова «Бледное пламя»: эпиграф и тайна авторства
Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Pale Fire": The Epigraph and the Secret of Authorship

Author(s): A. V. Zlochevskaja
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: V. Nabokov; “Pale Fire”; narrative structure; author-hero;

Summary/Abstract: The key to the enigma of the authorship of V. Nabokov’s novel “Pale Fire” lies in the epigraph to the novel: it formulates the algorism of the “reverse move” which is what organizes the narrative structure of the text. Kinbot is Shade’s black shadow; Shade is the glowing shadow of the Almighty also as of the only author of the novel’s macro text - V. Nabokov.

  • Issue Year: 53/2008
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 205-217
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian