Ada and Van have been discussing botanical names and translations:
Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969).
God knows what indeed. Ada and Van are very unusual children.
Ada is among other things a parody-history of the novel. The dowdy, stilted narrative voice that here recounts a bit of dialogue — “ interrupted Marina resolutely with calming gestures of both hands” — is one of the book’s many pleasures.
Elaine and I are now 400 pages in, and I suspect that Ada might displace Pale Fire as my favorite Nabokov novel.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Ada : “nice normal things”
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