In 'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov, the metafictional element is primarily located in:
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Correct answer: A 999-line poem followed by a lengthy, delusional commentary
The 'novel' is disguised as a scholarly edition of a poem. The humor and plot emerge from the tension between the poem and the increasingly unhinged footnotes provided by the editor, Charles Kinbote.
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