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It happens
Pale Fire employs Charles Kinbote as its primary unreliable narrator, whose extensive footnotes on John Shade’s poem reveal his delusions—he fabricates a Zemblan identity and rewrites the text to center his fantasies, exposing his madness through inconsistencies like impossible timelines and self-contradictory claims.
This unreliability satirizes scholarly overreach, as Kinbote hijacks Shade’s work, blending factual errors with fabulation, forcing readers to question authorship and reality itself.
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