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Although this book is a work of fiction, it resists classification as a novel, as it does not employ the typical structures and devices of narrative fiction. Nabokov leaves the work up to the reader, who has to construct a narrative (or a work of literary criticism, or a record of the ravings of a madman) for him or herself from the Foreword, the 999 line poem "Pale Fire," and the "Commentary" by the text's "editor." The work is a sharp comment on literary criticism and on the conventions of representation in fiction. Also, it is very funny.

Acquired 1997
McGill Bookstore, Montreal, Quebec