Ada, or Ardor
24 hrs. 29 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Narrator
Evgeny Dyatlov
Narrator
Evgeny Dyatlov
Description
“Ada, or Ardor. A Family Chronicle” is a novel Vladimir Nabokov wrote in English, published in the United States in 1969. It spans more than a hundred years in the life of an aristocratic and influential family—the Vinos. It is a love story and a philosophical meditation on the nature of time; it plays with literary forms and experiments with its own consciousness. In this novel, much like “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Márquez, the history of a family unfolds in which a forbidden love between brother and sister arises and stretches across the entire book.
Written in the genre of alternate history, the story is set on Antiterra, whose chronology in some cases lags behind Earth’s and in others runs ahead. Woven into a skilfully crafted historical-and-geographical tapestry, “Ada” shows how the state of Estotian blends pre-revolutionary Russia with modern America and Canada; the western world stands against the Golden Horde and Tartary, resembling the USSR, while the existence of Earth and Terra is confirmed only by indirect evidence based on the visions of the mad and the speculations of terra-philosophers.
“Ada, or Ardor” is a museum-novel: through literary parody, it depicts the peculiarities of its own genre and the extraliteral, real space of the 19th–20th centuries reflected in the text like in a crooked mirror.
Written in the genre of alternate history, the story is set on Antiterra, whose chronology in some cases lags behind Earth’s and in others runs ahead. Woven into a skilfully crafted historical-and-geographical tapestry, “Ada” shows how the state of Estotian blends pre-revolutionary Russia with modern America and Canada; the western world stands against the Golden Horde and Tartary, resembling the USSR, while the existence of Earth and Terra is confirmed only by indirect evidence based on the visions of the mad and the speculations of terra-philosophers.
“Ada, or Ardor” is a museum-novel: through literary parody, it depicts the peculiarities of its own genre and the extraliteral, real space of the 19th–20th centuries reflected in the text like in a crooked mirror.
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