Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov's 'Pale Fire' has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot's philosophical position, particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot's later tendency for conservatism in literature, politics and religion. After Nabokov was forced into exile from Germany and then France in the 1930s with his yo...
Robin Davies here demonstrates that Nabokov's 'Pale Fire' has a classical unity and represents a direct attack on T.S. Eliot's philosophical position, particularly as given in The Waste Land and as represented by Eliot's later tendency for conservatism in literature, politics and religion. After Nabokov was forced into exile from Germany and then France in the 1930s with his young son and Jewish wife, Eliot's passivism must have seemed to him the very antithesis of survival. The enigmatic Pale Fire and its surface triviality suggested that there could be self-consistent logic within the obvious commentary of Charles Kinbote and John Shade's poem. Davies places thiswork in its vast European context, forming a bridge between Russian and European literature which will be appreciated by scholars of both.
The third part of the poem deals with the unfortunate demise of a butterfly at the hands of an innocent young girl, being pierced through the heart with a pin, de-legged by her white nails feeling its shrivelling antennae in the final death throes. This charming poem should not be anaesthetized by classificatory camphor, and we focus on two lepidoptera of primary significance in Pale Fire, le Vulcain, the red admiral or red admirable, and le bombice du troëne, the silk moth of the privet; but also, importantly, we consider un éventail de soie. (查看原文)
机读法光速翻了一遍，本书中有一个推论shade是alfin 的大儿子，John shade is a natural son
of the murdered king alfin, making John a dormant pretender, an elder Charles, to the Zemblan throne，所以他是kinbote的大影子。不明觉厉不能接受。
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机读法光速翻了一遍，本书中有一个推论shade是alfin 的大儿子，John shade is a natural son of the murdered king alfin, making John a dormant pretender, an elder Charles, to the Zemblan throne，所以他是kinbote的大影子。不明觉厉不能接受。