Kinbote explicitly refers to both the Shadean and the Kinbotean reader, but there are also a few implicit references to the Nabokovian reader, who rereads the text in a non-linear manner, following ...

J G Ballard produced an entire story in the form of an alphabetical index, inviting the reader to reconstruct the missing book from its surviving index, while in Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Charles Kinbote, ...

followed by an extensive commentary authored by his neighbor and colleague Charles Kinbote. The commentary, however, is no such thing. What purport to be glosses on the lines of the poem turn out ...