Pale fire. Nabokov V.V.

In its structure, the novel is a large -scale, almost thousand lines, the poem “Pale Fire”, written by the heroic stanza by the famous American poet John Francis Shade, and a detailed, occupying most of the novel, a commentary on this poem, compiled by Dr. Charles Kinbot. Naturally, both Sheid and Kinbot are the characters invented, and the comment itself, although it is formally built according to the laws of commentary on the literary work, is more like a literary game containing a huge number of cultural references and freely operating a variety of genres: from play to scientific Articles and memoir prose.