William Boyd
...on the unique Nabokov novel that isn't Lolita...
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
“I think this is a unique novel. There’s no other novel quite it. It’s a 999-line poem in rhyming couplets and 250 pages of footnotes. That sounds dry as dust, but it’s an incredibly funny novel as well, and another reason that I wish I had written it. It’s a poem and a novel in one and it’s incredibly clever, and incredibly funny. It’s a complete one-off.”
