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Nabokov's Pale Fire : the magic of artistic discovery / Brian Boyd

This critical analysis provides a reinterpretation of the novel Pale Fire, analysing its narrative structure and the connections between its aesthetics and metaphysics. It explores how the text reveals progressive layers of meaning through the discovery of internal clues.

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