... can further be reasonable to suggest that, like Nabokov´s other works, Pale Fire is somewhat autobiographical; the lonely Charles Kinbote talks about, in suspiciously intimate detail, a certain king, Charles the Beloved, who is supposed to have ruled over the "distant northern land" of Zembla from 1936 until 1958, but was forced into exile. The fantastic imaginary world of Zembla ... ...
... of social outcasts and her emphasis on their physical handicaps underscores their emotional deficiencies as the characters fall into a love triangle and each character shows their love for their respective beloved in awkward, childlike ways. McCullers also distorts time in the story; chronological order is thrown to the wind, and time often suspends in the story to accommodate the narrator's digressions ... ...
... is an evil that comes between the infant and the mother and this pattern of thought attaches itself to anything that can remotely symbolize an evil patriarch and the mother beloved. Some people devote their whole lives to reliving the infantile the family romance triangle in every situation that can remotely give itself to such an interpretation. The works of Karl ... ...
