Pale Fire

Description:

A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.

subjects: Immigrants,  Fiction,  Kings and rulers,  Assassination,  American poetry,  New York Times reviewed,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  American literature,  Kings and rulersxAssassination,  Authors in literature,  Écrivains dans la littérature,  Experimental fiction,  Russian fiction,  Translations into English