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A review by the_tower
Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
It is so intressting to tell a story through a memoir of two fictinal people. It is clear that the story is told from a perspective, that the past is looked at through rose tinted glasses. And so it's not surpraising that through other eyes our heroes love might become infatuatuion. And one sees that Van breaks the hearts of all the women he is in a relationship because he only has one love. And one sees how he drives Lucette to suicide because he cannot love her and refuses to love her carnally.
Nabokov's books are distinctly modern, always told from a unreliable perspective. In Lolita it is the perspective of pedofile who tells us about the love that he perceives. In Ada he have the perspective of a serial heart breaker who does not see the hurt he gives to others in his seek for carnal love.
Nabokov's books are distinctly modern, always told from a unreliable perspective. In Lolita it is the perspective of pedofile who tells us about the love that he perceives. In Ada he have the perspective of a serial heart breaker who does not see the hurt he gives to others in his seek for carnal love.