Kinbotean

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Kinbote +‎ -an

Adjective[edit]

Kinbotean (comparative more Kinbotean, superlative most Kinbotean)

  1. Of or relating to Charles Kinbote, the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire (1962).

Noun[edit]

Kinbotean (plural Kinboteans)

  1. (literature) A proponent of an interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire according to which the ostensible author John Shade is in fact an invention of the character Charles Kinbote.

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