This is the link
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-r-palefire.html
to the original New York Times review of the novel, entitled "In an Elaborate Spoof, Nabokov Takes Us to the Never-Never Land of Zembla."
This is a short essay
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0244.html
on Pale Fire in terms of the post-modernist movement that it immediately preceded.