Description
ORIGINAL EDITION.
Translated from the English by Raymond Girard and Maurice-Edgar Coindreau.
ONE OF 37 NUMBERED COPIES ON PUR FIL, only large paper.
Published in 1962, Pale light is the posthumous publication of a long poem by John Shade accompanied by an introduction, a detailed commentary and an index written by a close friend of the author, Charles Kinbote, in which the plot is revealed in fragments.
This work of metafiction with Borgesian overtones is considered by Brain Boyd to be "Nabokov's most perfect novel".
Nice uncut copy.
Sources : Nabokov: A Centennial Toast, Brian Boyd