Ada or Ardor : A family chronicle - Couverture souple

Nabokov, Vladimir

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140030522 ISBN 13 : 9780140030525

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1971

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0140030522
• ISBN 13: 9780140030525
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 480