| 1 | * DeathOfTheAuthor: Nabokov was unfamiliar with this concept as such because he had no interest in late 20th century French literary criticism (and Roland Barthes' TropeNamer essay was published six years after this novel), but he was happy to tell you ''exactly'' what his books meant. When he stated in an interview what he thought happened to the novel's narrator, one critic called it "authorial trespassing," and invited readers to completely ignore it. |
| 2 | * EpilepticTrees: Kinbote is not the only person given to outlandish comment and analysis given the many, many interpretations of this work. |
| 3 | * EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Reading Mary [=McCarthy=]'s introduction to the novel will make your head hurt. |
| 4 | * GeniusBonus: King of Zembla Charles II the Beloved is a reference to a French king Charles VI who early in his reign indeed had this nickname attributed to him. Later he received another one, becoming famous as Charles the Mad. |
| 5 | * JerkassWoobie: Kinbote is a pathetic creep who has a creepy and borderline sexual obsession with a man whom he only knew for a few months before his death and excessively intruded upon his privacy, but his grief and sheer emotional desolation is pitiful. |
| 6 | -->'''Kinbote:''' Dear Jesus, do something. |
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