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Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1962
Pages
Pages 300

A poem in four cantos is published with a commentary by a neighbouring academic who hijacks every note to tell his own story, of an exiled king who may exist only in his head.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane.
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

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