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Lädt ... Ada oder Das Verlangen (1969)von Vladimir Nabokov
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Nachdem man die ausführliche Beschreibung der Ahnenreihe der Hauptfiguren überwunden hat, folgt zunächst eine wunderschön mit sehr viel Geschick für Details erzählte Geschichte über das Verlangen eines Jungen nach seiner Schwester, die er für seine Cousine hält. Je älter die Figuren werden, desto mehr verliert sich dann leider der rote Faden, die geschilderten Ereignisse erscheinen zunehmend bedeutungslos. Es mutet an, als ob Nabokov das Liebesleben Erwachsener einfach nicht in derselben Gefühlsintensität schildern kann wie das Heranwachsender. Gegen Ende folgt noch eine langwierige philosophische Betrachtung über das Wesen der Zeit und das Ende war so nichtssagend, dass ich es schon wieder vergessen habe. Wegen des schönen ersten Teil, der sich durchaus zu lesen lohnt, insgesamt trotzdem 3 Sterne. ( )
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. Prestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
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 Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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