In Part Three, after many amorous vicissitudes, Ada gets married and Van loses her for 17 years, finally regaining her in 1922 in Part Four, while he is working on his book, "The Texture of Time." Part Five, a kind Part Two ends with Van forsaking Ada, following his father's Part One occupies almost half of "Ada," and details Van's youth, travels and incestuous romance with Ada at Arcadian Ardis Hall, the opulent country-estate of his uncle. In fact, however, Van and Ada are the result of Demon and Marina's continuing affair. Prefatory Family Tree it appears that Aqua and Demon have produced Van (b. The novel's first three chapters are difficult reading and the narrator himself addresses remarks to "the reader." Two first cousins, "Demon" and Dan Veen, marry twin sisters, Aqua and Marina. The story of the affluent and ingrown Veen family is not a Ivan (Van) Veen, psychologist, professor of philosophy and student of time, who chronicles his life-long love for Ada Veen. More specifically, "Ada" is presented as the memoir of Dr. Museum of the novel, and it employs parody to rehearse its own history. As the family chronicle to end all such chronicles, "Ada" is a kind of Tableaux vivants of works ranging from Beardsley's illustrations for "Lysistrata" to the idyllic landscapes of Monet and Prendergast. More luminous landscapes than in "Ada." It is an extraordinarily visual book, teeming with allusions to painters and paintings, and many scenes are veritable Nabokov the lepidopterist once said that he was "born a landscape painter," and he has never "painted"
Prose moves from the darkest to the lightest of sonorities as Nabokov sensually evokes the widest range of delights. Almost twice as long as any previous Nabokov novel, its rich and variegated It is a love story, an erotic masterpiece, a philosophical investigation into the nature of time.
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"Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" (its full title) spans 100 years. Appearing two weeks after his 70th birthday, it provides further evidence that he is a peer of Kafka, Proust and Joyce, those earlier masters of totally unique universes of Great fairy tale, a supremely original work of the imagination. literature does not tell the truth but makes it up." "Ada," Nabokov's 15th novel, is a By Vladimir Nabokov.Īt Cornell University, Vladimir Nabokov would always begin his first lecture by saying, "Great novels are above all great fairy tales. Sunday, May 4, 1969ĪDA Or Ardor: A Family Chronicle. Ada: An Erotic Masterpiece That Explores the Nature of TimeĪda: An Erotic Masterpiece That Explores the Nature of Time By ALFRED APPEL, JR.
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