著名文学批评家奥尔特论《苍白的火》

本文指出,美国当代著名文学评论家奥尔特经过细致研究,对《苍白的火》这一堪称颠覆以往小说形式的独创作品给予了深入解析。奥尔特认为,《苍白的火》是当代自我意识小说的一个重要作品,始自塞万提斯的自我意识行为的双重性以及照镜子般的自我意识设计,在纳博科夫这部小说中无处不在,而且达到登峰造极的程度,即真实的和幻觉的、准确的和歪曲的、直接的和魔幻的感应均随处可见。《苍白的火》的四个板块的结构,堪称嬉戏般的循环式感应的构建。

On the Famous American Critic Alter's Studies of Pale Fire

This article shows that through a thorough study of Pale Fire,the famous American critic Alter provided a profound interpretation of the original novel that can be said to have gone beyond the forms of the previous fiction.According to Alter,Nabokov＇s Pale Fire is an important work of the contemporary self-conscious fiction,in which the self-conscious activity of dedoublement and the self-conscious device of the mirror that were begun by Cervantes are not only frequently seen,but also reach apotheosis.That is to say,reflections,the real and illusory,the accurate and distorted,the straightforward and magical,is ubiquitous.The play of circular reflections is how the novel with its four sections is actually constructed.