Details Books In Pursuance Of Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
| Original Title: | Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle |
| ISBN: | 0679725229 (ISBN13: 9780679725220) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Van Veen, Ada Veen, Lucette Veen, Demon Veen |
| Setting: | Demonia or Antiterra |
Vladimir Nabokov
Paperback | Pages: 604 pages Rating: 4.15 | 9068 Users | 687 Reviews
Specify Epithetical Books Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
| Title | : | Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle |
| Author | : | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 604 pages |
| Published | : | February 19th 1990 by Vintage (first published 1969) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Russia. Literature |
Narration Supposing Books Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the superb work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.Rating Epithetical Books Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Ratings: 4.15 From 9068 Users | 687 ReviewsAppraise Epithetical Books Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
This interminable book is written in dense, erudite, alliterative, punsome, pore-clogging prose; and every character, without exception, sounds like late Henry James. Martin AmisTemo che molti piccoli dettagli di questo romanzo siano sfuggiti alla mia comprensione, ciò nonostante lho adorato con ardore.Credo, infatti, che questo sia uno dei libri dalla scrittura più complessa ai quali mi sia mai avvicinata. Una scrittura a dir poco magnifica (inchino a Nabokov fino a toccarmi gli stinchi con la fronte), che già avevo apprezzato fino all'innamoramento in Lolita, ma che qui viene adornata (e anche un po' appesantita, a onor del vero) con tanti orpelli che ho trovato
Suppose things had worked out better for Humbert Humbert. Suppose he'd gone to jail for a while but hadn't had a heart attack there, and suppose Lolita hadn't died while still a teenager, giving birth to a stillborn child. Suppose instead that they'd both survived, had various sordid adventures, and then miraculously reconnected twenty years later, at which point they suddenly realised that they had some something beautiful and unique together. And suppose that Humbert actually wrote his memoirs
Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval. Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle Incest, a game the Whole Family Can Play, NOT by Milton's blind Bradley®. Part I:There's a whole swath of novels I purchased in my twenties but knowing the authors' genius never felt quite ready to read (ah, tomorrow). It took me years to crack open these
Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval. First off, I should say this is my least favourite Nabokov novel. Its an insanely clever novel and probably needs to be read at least twice to be fully appreciated, which is another way of saying its hard work. The first three chapters are virtually unreadable. It felt like arriving at someones door who
Oh man, sometimes goodreads really weirds me out, like just now when I read all of these really well-written slams or relative-slams of this book. This book to me is so beautiful and lush and rich. I pick it up all the time and read favorite pages or phrases over again; it makes me feel full. It's romantic and strange. The tedium of parts of it just reminds me of the tedium of real-life. I fucking love the shit out of this book, y'all.
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is not my favorite Nabokov, but, yes, a Nabokov is a Nabokov, so naturally it is preternaturally well-written, is fluent in more languages than you, is better read than you, dresses better, eats better, exercises more, dates all the guys or girls youre too nervous to talk to, never has to worry about money, is always healthier than you, can hold its liquor better than you can, all in all, is better than youand knows it too.Apparently Nabokov was working on two
0 Comments