Pale Fire Lesson Plan

Pale Fire shares a few different traits with Nabokov's other works. For instance, both this novel and Lolita give us wildly unreliable narrators, to the point that we might look to their words for information on precisely what did not happen. As a piece of writing that is about the writing process, it is not dissimilar to other postmodern works that explore similar themes. In particular, Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler comes to mind.