pale fire is a novelnovel
the novel is a medium of literature. commonly, a novel will take place in an urban, social environment and have an omniscient perspective and cut between various characters acting at the same t... written by nabokovnabokov
vladimir nabokov (1899 - 1977) was a writer of novels and poems. he grew up in russia speaking russian, french, and english. he went to cambridge.
play was an important part of... in 1962. It consists of a foreword, poem, commentary, and index. the poem is written by john shade. The rest is by Charles Kinbote / Botkin / Charles the Beloved of Zembla.
It is a meditation on readingreading
reading is a technology of retrieving information from Writing through interpretation. nabokov says a good reader needs 4 things: imagination, memory, a dictionary, some art... and meaningnessmeaningness
meaningness is a book describing the eponymous quality of having meaning as well as the study of this quality and a stance that acknowledges it.
when we talk about the meaning of X, we are emp..., existentialismexistentialism
existentialism is a stance regarding the meaningness of the human condition as a response to nihilism from Jean-Paul sartre and others, coming from nietzsche, kierkegaard, [... / Absurdism Private or Broken Links
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on the first page, we get a reference to sherlock holmessherlock holmes
sherlock holmes is a character in detective fiction.
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influences
It is influenced by alexander popealexander pope
alexander pope was an english poet during the Restoration. He wrote The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, Dunciad.
he produced a translation of the iliad and the odyssey and an edition on... and jonathan swiftjonathan swift
jonathan swift was an Irish writer. He wrote Gulliver's Travels, etc. He was good friends with alexander pope.
and hamlethamlet
the tragedy of hamlet, prince of denmark is an english tragedy by shakespeare. one of his longest and most complex plays, it has been an enduring staple of english literature and lite... and t.s. eliott.s. eliot
dante and shakespeare divide the world between them. there is no third.
thomas stearns eliot (1888-1965) was a writer of poems, plays, and literary critic. he was born in st. l... and Proust Private or Broken Links
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and joycejoyce
james joyce was an irish writer. he wrote a portrait of the artist as a young man ulysses. influenced by shakespeare, aristotle, dante, homer, w.b. yeats, horace, ... and samuel johnsonsamuel johnson
samuel johnson was an English writer. his london is an imitation of juvenal. he also produced an edition of shakespeare.
and brothers karamazovbrothers karamazov
the brothers karamazov is a russian novel by dostoevsky about existentialism and christian. It seems to have had a big influence on wittgenstein and heidegger and jordan p....