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It's already there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire
See below fragment with reference to Botkin.
Since Wikipedia content is writable by any registered user with minimum
moderation and not clear ownership (all there is log of changes with
user
id) I can see how proponents of different theories of authorship fight
it
out in their Text Editors. Just imagine all Shadean, Kinbotian,
multi-personality disorder and other proponents out there, lurking in
the
dark. With current activity here that's going to become a fun project.
Who
knows, may be even ultimate Wikipedia page ;)
- George Shimanovich
Some readers, starting with Mary McCarthy[15] and including Boyd,
Nabokov's
annotator Alfred Appel,[16] and D. Barton Johnson,[17] see Charles
Kinbote
as an alter-ego of the insane Professor V. Botkin, to whose delusions
John
Shade and the rest of the faculty of Wordsmith College generally
condescend.
Nabokov himself endorsed this reading, writing in his diary in 1962 (the
novel's year of publication) in case it was needed for an interview: "I
wonder if any reader will notice...that the nasty commentator is not an
ex-king and not even Dr. Kinbote, but Prof. Vseslav Botkin, a Russian
and a
madman."[18] (Some may regard this as another example of "authorial
trespassing".[citation needed])
Still other readers de-emphasize any sort of "real story" and may doubt
the
existence of such a thing. In the interplay of allusions and thematic
links,
they find a picture of English literature,[14] criticism,[11] or some
other
topic.
The only consensus is that the book is unique.
[18]^ Quoted in Boyd (1991), p. 709
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See below fragment with reference to Botkin.
Since Wikipedia content is writable by any registered user with minimum
moderation and not clear ownership (all there is log of changes with
user
id) I can see how proponents of different theories of authorship fight
it
out in their Text Editors. Just imagine all Shadean, Kinbotian,
multi-personality disorder and other proponents out there, lurking in
the
dark. With current activity here that's going to become a fun project.
Who
knows, may be even ultimate Wikipedia page ;)
- George Shimanovich
Some readers, starting with Mary McCarthy[15] and including Boyd,
Nabokov's
annotator Alfred Appel,[16] and D. Barton Johnson,[17] see Charles
Kinbote
as an alter-ego of the insane Professor V. Botkin, to whose delusions
John
Shade and the rest of the faculty of Wordsmith College generally
condescend.
Nabokov himself endorsed this reading, writing in his diary in 1962 (the
novel's year of publication) in case it was needed for an interview: "I
wonder if any reader will notice...that the nasty commentator is not an
ex-king and not even Dr. Kinbote, but Prof. Vseslav Botkin, a Russian
and a
madman."[18] (Some may regard this as another example of "authorial
trespassing".[citation needed])
Still other readers de-emphasize any sort of "real story" and may doubt
the
existence of such a thing. In the interplay of allusions and thematic
links,
they find a picture of English literature,[14] criticism,[11] or some
other
topic.
The only consensus is that the book is unique.
[18]^ Quoted in Boyd (1991), p. 709
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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