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Published two weeks after Vladimir Nabokov's seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of his greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest, but 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 supreme 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. One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." --John Updike… (plus d'informations)
> Le château d'Ardis – les Ardeurs et les Arbres d'Ardis – voilà le leitmotiv qui revient en vagues perlées dans Ada, vaste et délicieuse chronique, dont la plus grande partie a pour décor une Amérique à la clarté de rêve - car nos souvenirs d'enfance ne sont-ils pas comparables aux caravelles voguant vers la Vinelande, qu'encerclent indolemment les blancs oiseaux des rêves ? Le protagoniste, héritier de l'une de nos plus illustres et plus opulentes familles, est le Dr Van Veen, fils du baron « Démon » Veen, mémorable personnalité de Reno et de Manhattan. La fin d'une époque extraordinaire coïncide avec la non moins extraordinaire enfance de Van. Il n'est rien dans la littérature mondiale, sauf peut-être les réminiscences du comte Tolstoï, qui puisse le disputer en allégresse pure, innocence arcadienne, avec les chapitres de ce livre qui traitent d'« Ardis ». —Pauline Hamon (Culturebox)
Certainement le meilleur Nabokov, on peut se perdre dans son labyrinthe poétique, et l'histoire d'un amour incestueux, dans une atmosphère délicieusement surannée. Un de ces livres dont on peut relire un chapitre ou en entier avec le même plaisir.
At Cornell University, Vladimir Nabokov would always begin his first lecture by saying, "Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up." "Ada," Nabokov's 15th novel, is a great fairy tale, a supremely original work of the imagination. 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 fiction. "Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle" (its full title) spans 100 years. It is a love story, an erotic masterpiece, a philosophical investigation into the nature of time.
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Mit Ausnahme von Mr. und Mrs. Ronald Oranger, ein paar Randfiguren und einigen nicht-amerikanischen Bürgern sind alle in diesem Buch namentlich erwähnten Personen tot. (Der Hrsg.)
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"All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike," says a great Russian writer in the beginning of a famous novel.
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A dozen elderly townsmen, shabby and uncouth, walked into the forest and sat down to a modest colazione.... The predominant gesture seemed to be ritually limited to this or that fist crumpling brown paper or coarse gazette paper or baker's paper (the very lightweight and inefficient sort), and discarding the crumpled bit in quiet, abstract fashion.
A famous international agency, known as the VPL, handled Very Private Letters.... fantastically priced ... Van retrieved a batch of five letters, each in its VPL pink silk-paper case.
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Not the least adornment of the chronicle is the delicacy of pictorial detail: the latticed gallery; a painted ceiling; a pretty plaything stranded among the forget-me-nots of a brook; butterflies and butterfly orchids in the margin of the romance; a misty view descried from the marble steps; a doe at gaze in the ancestral park; and much, much more.
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Published two weeks after Vladimir Nabokov's seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of his greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest, but 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 supreme 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. One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." --John Updike
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—Pauline Hamon (Culturebox)