Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poet's crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this...