{"product_id":"pale-fire-introduction-by-richard-rorty","title":"Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in \u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\u003e published in 1962 after the critical and popular success of \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e had made him an international literary figure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, \u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\u003e offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, this darkly witty novel of suspense, literary one-upmanship, and political intrigue achieves that rarest of things in literature-perfect tragicomic balance. With an introduction by Richard Rorty.","brand":"Richard Rorty, Vladimir Nabokov","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47282815533292,"sku":"9780679410775","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780679410775.jpg?v=1770354296","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/pale-fire-introduction-by-richard-rorty","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}