Between Metafiction and Metaphysics, or How Not to Read Pale Fire
This essay aims to investigate the problem of metafictional self-consciousness in the works of Vladimir Nabokov through the character John Shade, the fictitious author of “Pale Fire”, a poem which is part of a peculiar novel bearing the same title. Shade’s metaphysical meditation, when separated fro...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Lingüística (ANPOLL) |
| Repositorio: | Revista da ANPOLL (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br:article/695 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/695 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire Metafiction Late Modernism Natural mimicry Metaficção Modernismo tardio Mimetismo natural. |
| Sumario: | This essay aims to investigate the problem of metafictional self-consciousness in the works of Vladimir Nabokov through the character John Shade, the fictitious author of “Pale Fire”, a poem which is part of a peculiar novel bearing the same title. Shade’s metaphysical meditation, when separated from the novel that contains it – a possibility realized by Gingko Press, which published the poem as a freestanding work in 2011 –, serves as a means of considering the relationship between the poet created by Nabokov and the writer himself. This leads, in turn, to Nabokov’s peculiar conception of nature, based on the idea of a benevolent creator that seems to serve as model for both his characters and his own art. |
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