NPPF Get Real

[s~Z]

>>>Personally I'm inclined to believe K made it up, but there is a middle
ground -- if it's fictionally consensual that doesn't necessarily mean that
our narrator was the king there. After the Russian revolution, Europe and
America had no shortage of émigrés claiming to be Romanovs, pretenders, or
otherwise connected to royalty <<<

And even Kinbote's account has no shortage of Zemblans impersonating the
King. Some of his descriptions of such read like a logoversion of a Where's
Waldo picturebook.

The novel coaxes us to do to Kinbote's writings what he
is doing to John Shade's poem. It obviously doesn't
mean what Kinbote says. He's a mad Narcissus after all.
Looking at his own reflection in the poem.