NPPF - Preliminary - Pale Fire

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:47, Jasper Fidget wrote:
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> _Pale Fire_ is an "involuted" (or "self-reflexive") novel -- a novel that
> contains the details concerning its own origin or composition.  An
> antecedent is Andre Gide's _The Counterfeiters_ (1926) which is a diary kept
> by a novelist about a work-in-progress called _The Counterfeiters_ (followed
> in the same year by Gide's _Journal of The Counterfeiters_, the journal he'd
> kept while writing the novel _The Counterfeiters_).  There's at least one
> reference to Gide in _Pale Fire_.  Another example of an involuted novel:
> Raymond Queneau's _Les Enfants du Limon_ (1938).  Anyone got more?

Strange word involuted. Shade uses involute in Canto Three.

No sound,/No furtive light came from their involute/Abode,

Isn't A la recherche du temps perdu a reflexive novel




P.