One character in this work marks a passage about snubbing in a volume of Proust and gives it as a gift to a character who did not invite him to a birthday party.
One character in this work marks a passage about snubbing in a volume of Proust and gives it as a gift to a character who did not invite him to a birthday party. One scene in this novel intercuts a scene of two characters flipping channels on the TV with a scene of those characters' daughter returning home from a blind date and drowning. While suffering a heart attack, one character in this novel has a vision of a white fountain. One of this novel's sections begins and possibly ends with the death of a waxwing bird that flies into a windowpane. This novel's main thread is interrupted by descriptions of the approach of the assassin Jakob Gradus and suggestions that the narrator is the exiled king of Zembla. For 10 points, name this extended commentary by Charles Kinbote on the title 999-line poem by John Shade, a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
One character in this work marks a passage about snubbing in a volume of Proust and gives it as a gift to a character who did not invite him to a birthday party.
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