by Vladimir Nabokov · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433930941
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Ada or Ardor, published by Vladimir Nabokov when he turned seventy, represents the culmination of his extensive and brilliant literary career. This work is at once a family chronicle, an incestuous love story, a philosophical treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the novel genre, an erotic novel, and a celebration of pleasure, claiming Paradise as something earthly. The central plot revolves around the encounters and disagreements between Van Veen and Ada, two siblings who, believing themselves to be cousins, fall passionately in love during their adolescence on the Ardis family estate, evoking the Garden of Eden. Now, with Van celebrating his ninety-seventh birthday, both nostalgically contemplate the avatars of their love, convinced that happiness and ecstasy are within the reach of those who retain the art of memory.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
