On The Writers Of Pale Fire

There are several second-class texts in Nabokov's novel entitled Pale Fire. They are Shade's autobiographic long poem called Pale Fire, Kinbote's autobiographic story under the title of An Insulated Monarch and the biography of Shade written by Kinbote. On the basis of these second-class texts, Nabokov finished writing the integral advanced text of the novel Pale Fire. Thus the readers have to face several writers. On the one hand readers become a medium of writers who try to shape themselves by writing to reach the goal of self-shape, on the other hand as these authors' common readers, they also become the mediation to check up and compare the effect of self-shape of the writers.Shade and Kinbote grow up in very different backgrounds, one becomes a well known poet, the other is regarded as notorious paranoia. However, in Shade's autobiographic long poem and Kinbote's autobiographic story, the readers can find in fact they were pursuing the same thing. That is to run away from the reality which was full of losts and disappointment. They both intend to avoid anxiety and dread in the reality caused by unpredictability and indetermination and by writing, especially the writing based on some hermeneutics model, build a steady and clear living space for themselves. They also hope the reader could identify with this kind of self-shape and strengthen it.Nevertheless, at the age when ability of language characterization wasquestioned, the readers are not satisfied with the sense of orientation directed by the writers, on the opposition when they are reading, they try to question and reconstruct the self-shape of the writer. The readers break up these two autobiographies one by one and regroup them by active use of the exposed crack when they parallel those second-class texts. Thus they can see the another truth about writing and writer in surface texts and finally overthrow the self-shape of the two autobiography authors.Nabokov compares himself with the other two autobiography writers consciously, and emphasizes his own attitude as author and carries out the activities of self-shape. He is in a maze of the space-time limits in common world, cord of individual soul and body and the throttlehold of new reception and taste. He expected the prison wall around him would suddenly collapse through art appreciation and dance in the outside. Nabokov realizes the science couldn't deliver the era language context of cultural consciousness. However, he cannot identify with the dependence on narrative language to pursue a single meaning and clear expression of the former authors when writing. He sets up many blank points to encourage readers to fill in the blanks and cultivate active readers. Then he also borrows several structures of heterogeneity text and paralleled them to smash the kind of clear narrative language only with single meaning. He tried to present the multiple meaning tendency of language to reach the active experience of readers. Thus readers can break the limits of space-time in common world, enter the free world of tasting and finally finish self-shaping in reading practices. Except the writing strategy above mentioned, Nabokov also uses contextual skills for reference, such as borrowing the game skills of chess puzzle to the novel text to strengthen the effect of self-shape.Nevertheless as Nabokov still regarded writing as the carrier of self-shape, he as an author cannot avoid the same end as the two authors, that is, they all belong to the art of witchcraft.