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Pale Fire, written by Vladimir Nabokov, is a 999‑line poem in heroic couplets divided into four cantos. In the novel’s narrative, the poem was composed by the fictional, obsessively methodical, John Francis Shade during the last twenty days of his life. The work is noted for its experimental form and the interplay between the poem and its commentary.
First publish date: 1962
Genre: Literary Fiction/Experimental Fiction
Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
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