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To Play with Pale Fire – Post 01

Pale Fire is a complex novel no matter how you approach it. It’s structure is almost startlingly odd and the content defies easy interpretation. It is clear, more so than in any of his other work, that Nabokov is actively challenging the reader to craft a meaningful fabula. Whether he is challenging the reader to [...]

To Play with Pale Fire – Post 00

I’ve been playing with a game design based on Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov since January’s BoRT. Initially I thought it would be much too difficult to convert, but the more I thought about it the more I realized it was almost the perfect novel for such an effort–not only in structure, but in content [...]