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8590805 No.8590805 [Reply] [Original]

Is Charles Kinbote the most insufferable cunt in literature? I hate the "the narrator sucks so I won't read the book" meme, but this is almost too much.

>> No.8590831

>>8590805
I understood the poem on my first read so I didn't have to read kinbotes notes.

>> No.8590863

>he bought the kinbote commentary

just read it without notes or read the watkins, he's way better if formalism is your thing

>> No.8590904

>>8590831
>>8590863
i hope you guys are joking, but it's hard to tell these days.

>> No.8591047

I was assigned an essay on pale fire that I have to hand in soon. I just plagiarised the commentary that came with the poem but in my own words, lmao.

>> No.8591207
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8591207

>>8590831
>>8590863
>>8591047
8/10

>> No.8591244

>>8590863
i can't find one without it. literally every copy has this dumbass Kinbote criticism along with it

>> No.8591254

just watch the x-files episode about those parts instead.