Pale Fire
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Pale Fire is a 1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional poet John Shade, with a foreword, lengthy commentary, and index wr
First US edition of Pale Fire
Postmodern literature
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Postmodern literature is a genre of literature characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reference, and intertextuality, and which often presents both historical and politica
Pale Fire
…has attracted much attention, and it is often cited as an important example of metafiction, as well as an analog precursor to hypertext fiction, and a poioumenon. It has spawned a wide variety of interpretations and a large body of written criticism, which literary scholar Pekka Tammi estimated in 1995 as more…
American author and publisher Dave Eggers is one of several contemporary authors who represent the latest movement in post-modern literature which some have deemed post-postmodernism or post-irony.