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From: "Suh, Michael (C&PA)" <MSuh@exchange.ML.com>
Boyd does indeed contend "other things" in his book; if chief among them is
the point that Pale Fire has Shade and Kinbote as narrators, I don't see
that you would have to read Boyd's book at all; a look at the first page of
the novel would have told you as much.
> From: sam schuman <schumans@mrs.umn.edu>
>
> Brian Boyd's new book, "Nabokov's 'Pale Fire'" is very briefly reviewed in
> this week's CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION:
>
> "Argues that Nabokov designed the 1962 novel with clues that allow readers
> to make increasingly elusive discoveries on each rereading of the book:
> contends, among other things, that the novel has two narrators: John
> Shade
> and Charles Kinbote."
>
> I'm particularly fond of that "among other things;" it reminds me of the
> "blurb" which ends "Ada."
>
> There is a little photo of the book's cover at the top of the "New
> Scholarly Books" section (p. A24) of this edition of the CHRONICLE (28
> January 2000).
>
>
> Sam
>
> Samuel Schuman
> Interim Chancellor and Dean
> The University of Minnesota, Morris
> Morris, MN 56267
> schumans@caa.mrs.umn.edu
> 320-589-6015
Boyd does indeed contend "other things" in his book; if chief among them is
the point that Pale Fire has Shade and Kinbote as narrators, I don't see
that you would have to read Boyd's book at all; a look at the first page of
the novel would have told you as much.
> From: sam schuman <schumans@mrs.umn.edu>
>
> Brian Boyd's new book, "Nabokov's 'Pale Fire'" is very briefly reviewed in
> this week's CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION:
>
> "Argues that Nabokov designed the 1962 novel with clues that allow readers
> to make increasingly elusive discoveries on each rereading of the book:
> contends, among other things, that the novel has two narrators: John
> Shade
> and Charles Kinbote."
>
> I'm particularly fond of that "among other things;" it reminds me of the
> "blurb" which ends "Ada."
>
> There is a little photo of the book's cover at the top of the "New
> Scholarly Books" section (p. A24) of this edition of the CHRONICLE (28
> January 2000).
>
>
> Sam
>
> Samuel Schuman
> Interim Chancellor and Dean
> The University of Minnesota, Morris
> Morris, MN 56267
> schumans@caa.mrs.umn.edu
> 320-589-6015