Crown Jewels are high in the sky. Namely - All the expressions in the novel lead to key words related to the celestial representation of the clockwork toy – the Ploughman (the Boötes constellation) and the Big Dipper. read more
In Vladimir Nabokov’s 1962 novel Pale Fire, hidden crown jewels haunt the narrator, Charles Kinbote. The mad, self-absorbed Kinbote believes himself to be the exiled king of Zembla, a northern ruler overthrown by a Soviet-style neighbor. read more
“The Psychology of the Double in Nabokov’s Pale Fire. so it seems to me unhelpful simply to identify similarities between Kinbote’s character and the types suggested by Freudian psychoanalysts without acknowledging the uses to which Nabokov put such similarities. 1956). read more