I finally read Nabokov's Pale Fire. It is far and away the best book I have ever read. I think about it multiple times a week unprompted and I'm sad because I am certain that I will never find another book like it.
…Circular Ruins" is wonderful. If you want dryer, more satirical and postmodern, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is hilarious. If you want a book that plays with the basic structure of a "novel", Nabokov's Pale Fire is a great read and a good introduction into what the technique of an unreliable narrator can truly achieve. No matter how out-there you think your interpretation of it is, if you look into published…
…reminding the reader of it. He lampoons academia while enabling many an academic career in the process. There are professors aplenty specializing in Nabokov and some in Pale Fire itself. For s&g I read "Nabokov's Pale Fire : The Magic of Artistic Discovery" by Brian Boyd, one of the aforementioned. It was interesting at first to see how literary criticsm and analysis work but eventually I had a Shatner moment.
'Unlike any other' might be a stretch. Writers have been playing these sorts of meta-narrative games for decades now. Nabokov's Pale Fire comes to mind. House of Leaves is another example.
我终于读了纳博科夫的《微暗的火》。这绝对是我读过最棒的书，没有之一。我每周都会不由自主地想起它好几次，而且我挺难过的，因为我很确定自己再也找不到另一本像它一样的书了。
I finally read Nabokov's Pale Fire. It is far and away the best book I have ever read. I think about it multiple times a week unprompted and I'm sad because I am certain that I will never find another book like it.
纳博科夫的《微暗的火》。我时不时就会想起它，从头到尾都读得让人拍案叫绝。
Nabokov's Pale Fire. It pops into my mind every now and then, amazing read from start to end.
这篇文章漏掉了纳博科夫的《微暗的火》——这可是这类作品里的开山之作。
The article omits Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” — a seminal work in this vein.
……《环形废墟》棒极了。如果你想看更冷峻、更具讽刺意味和后现代风格的作品，《吉诃德的作者皮埃尔·梅纳尔》搞笑得很。如果你想找一本打破“小说”基本结构的书，纳博科夫的《微暗的火》是极佳的读物，也是了解“不可靠叙述者”这一手法到底能达到何种高度的绝佳入门。不管你觉得自己的解读有多离谱，只要你去查查那些已发表的……
…Circular Ruins" is wonderful. If you want dryer, more satirical and postmodern, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is hilarious. If you want a book that plays with the basic structure of a "novel", Nabokov's Pale Fire is a great read and a good introduction into what the technique of an unreliable narrator can truly achieve. No matter how out-there you think your interpretation of it is, if you look into published…
……不断提醒读者这一点。他一边讽刺学术界，一边又在这个过程中成就了无数人的学术生涯。专攻纳博科夫的教授一抓一大把，其中一些还专门研究《微暗的火》。为了图个乐（s&g），我读了前述学者之一布莱恩·博伊德写的《纳博科夫的微暗的火：艺术发现的魔力》。一开始看着文学批评和文本分析是怎么运作的还挺有意思，但最终我整个人都“Shatner moment”（惊呆无语）了。
…reminding the reader of it. He lampoons academia while enabling many an academic career in the process. There are professors aplenty specializing in Nabokov and some in Pale Fire itself. For s&g I read "Nabokov's Pale Fire : The Magic of Artistic Discovery" by Brian Boyd, one of the aforementioned. It was interesting at first to see how literary criticsm and analysis work but eventually I had a Shatner moment.
说它“绝无仅有”可能有点夸大其词了。几十年来作家们一直都在玩这种元叙事游戏。纳博科夫的《微暗的火》就是一个典型例子。《叶之屋》是另一个例子。
'Unlike any other' might be a stretch. Writers have been playing these sorts of meta-narrative games for decades now. Nabokov's Pale Fire comes to mind. House of Leaves is another example.