... 999-lines by the fictitious writer John Shade. Shade´s next-door neighbor, Charles Kinbote, writes the foreword and extensive commentary. As the novel constantly poses questions about the relationship between fiction and reality this novel can be argued to be a work of metafiction1, which is primarily associated with modernist literature and post-modernist literature. Nabokov uses a great deal of irony to ... aware of the lacking self-reflection of the main characters, and because of the lack of authentic historical references (besides the allusion to Greek mythology) this novel this i...

• Word Count: 461
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate