The ‘reality’ of speak, memory & pale fire

• Main Author: Neo, Dominic
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59277
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Brian Boyd mentions that “Vladimir Nabokov learned to write fiction that was immediately accessible but that almost immediately encouraged us to begin exploring deeper fiction that would be found to be endlessly complex” (Magic 5). Indeed, this sentiment is wholly conveyed in Pale Fire – his oeuvre...