Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 83

plots, assuming Nabokov is ample being an unreliable
not merely a cynical copyist, narrator
(the
invites the reader to consider Charles).
Therefore,
how much of a story must be this skeptical, often iconoclas-
taken before it transgresses tic movement, we can see
the line between homage and how Nabokov may be com-
simple imitation, and to re- pelled to aim his sights at an-
flect on the distinction just as other beacon of literary aca-
much as the protagonists re- demia: intellectual property.
flect on their own fates[4]. Nabokov is parodying the very
poor,
mad
amidst
concept of intellectual theft
[6], asking the reader exactly
Pale Fire is a novel clearly writ- what right an artist has over
ten in the Postmodern style, the work of another, and what
which celebrate right an artist has to do with
chance over craft, and further their own work (either to pro-
employ metafiction to under- tect from copying or even to
mine the text's authority or make as a copy of something)
authenticity[5]. Pale Fire , with whatever they will.
tend
to
its poem in a book in a com-
mentary in a novel, is very
much a metafiction, and hits [INSERT CONCLUSION HERE]
other criteria from the Post- (At this time, we do not offer
modernism checklist as well, custom conclusions. Because
with the most prominent ex- many conclusions are struc-
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