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Ninety-Nine Novels: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests.
In this episode, Andrew Biswell talks to Brian Boyd about Vladimir Nabokovâs novel Pale Fire, which Anthony Burgess called âa brilliant confectionâ.
Pale Fire is unlike any other novel. The first section of the novel takes the form of a 999-line poem, by a murdered poet called John Shade. The second section concerns the discursive commentary and notes by Shadeâs supposed editor, Charles Kinbote. Seemingly unconnected to the poem, Kinboteâs notes describe his belief that he is Charles the Beloved, the exiled king of a country called Zembla. Can this be true, or is Kinbote a fantasist? Does Shadeâs poem really reference the revolution in Zembla? Is Shade even real? These are just some of the questions raised by this rich and puzzling novel.
Vladimir Nabokov was born in St Petersburg in 1899, and being of aristocratic heritage, was exiled from Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power. Having studied in Britain, he settled in America in 1940, lecturing in Russian literature at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and Cornell University in New York State. His novel Lolita, published in 1955, brought him fame, and was filmed by Stanley Kubrick, from Nabokovâs own screenplay, in 1962. Nabokov died in Switzerland in 1977.
Brian Boyd is University Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and one of the leading experts in Nabokovâs work. His writings about Nabokov include Nabokovâs Ada: The Place of Consciousness, Nabokovâs Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery, and two volumes of biography subtitled The Russian Years and The American Years. He is currently working on a biography of the philosopher Karl Popper, along with a follow-up to his On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction; a book on Shakespeareâs plays; two books on Lolita; and a continuation of his annotations, a chapter at a time, to Ada, already almost 2500 pages, with about 500 to go. He is also co-editing Nabokovâs Lectures on Russian Poetry, Prose, and Drama.
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BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
By Vladimir Nabokov:
The Defense (1930)
Lolita (1955)
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969)
Transparent Things (1972)
‘The Vane Sisters’ in The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (1995)
By others:
Gradus ad Parnassum by Johann Joseph Fux (1725)
Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
The Joy of Gay Sex by Edmund White (1977)
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk (2015)
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LINKS
Nabokov’s Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery by Brian Boyd: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Nabokovs-Pale-Fire-by-Brian-Boyd/9780691089577?a_aid=BurgessFoundation (affiliate link)
International Anthony Burgess Foundation: https://www.anthonyburgess.org
International Anthony Burgess Foundation Newsletter: https://anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com
The theme music for the Ninety-Nine Novels podcast is Anthony Burgessâs Concerto for Flute, Strings and Piano in D Minor, performed by No Dice Collective: https://nodicecollective.com
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Roger Charlton said at Newbury on Friday that John Gosden was about to run the next Enable. What then happened suggested Charlton may well have been right.
In this week’s edition of The Front Page, Lee Mottershead, Lewis Porteous and Liam Headd assess the merits of Gosden’s new Oaks favourite I’m The One and look at all the Classic trials and key performances from last week’s big Flat meetings at Newbury and Newmarket.
The jumps season is entering its closing stages, so we ask who should be crowned Racing Post Jumps Horse of the Year.
The panel also look at some of last week’s biggest stories and ask whether the BHA needs to think again about how and when horses are disqualified when their riders have broken the sport’s whip rules.
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