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The Zembla Condition:
A Reading into the Reading into of Pale Fire
Pale Fire is a story that takes place mostly in the form of commentary on a 999 line poem. The commentary tells the story of an exiled King and his fated encounter with a simple poet, John Shade, and the consequetial harbingering of death to Shade by way of a political assassin name Gradus. The poem, however, does not contain any of these themes. It becomes obvious within the explanation of my rather rough summery that this work of fiction dwells somewhere outside the realm of reality. While reading the commentary one feels as though they have wandered into the labrynthian mind of a true madman, who has fabricated an entire universe around his obsessions and fears. The narrarator, Kinbote, is undoubtedly suffering from some form of mental illness, which I suspect is the Zembla Condition.
The National Counsel of Psychology's literature department defines The Zembla Condition as: 1. A withdrawal from reality......

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