Ada or Ardor

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Ada or Ardor (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)

The Novel

If Ada or Ardor (most commonly known as Ada) is about people—it is subtitled “A Family Chronicle,” and Nabokov supplies a detailed family tree that precedes the novel—it is also a book about literature, a parody. The difficulty for the reader is to judge correctly the proportions of the two. To what extent is it a book about people—above all about two lovers, Ada and Van—and to what extent is it a book about literary works and traditions? Clearly the novel is both. It is an interesting love story about two cousins who fall in love and...

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See Also:

• Vladimir Nabokov (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Vladimir Nabokov (Short Fiction)
• Vladimir Nabokov (Long Fiction)
• Vladimir Nabokov (Dictionary of World Biography)