#ada or ardor

[nabakovian]

if anyone is interested in reading ada but doesn't know where to start, someone on reddit sent me this really awesome online copy that is painstakingly and comprehensively annotated. my physical copy has the darkbloom annotations, but there were still a lot of things going over my head, so i've found this resource incredibly helpful:

[hercorrupterofwords]

"actually, the question of moral precedence has now hardly any importance, i mean, the hero and the heroine should held so close to each other, so 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 close that they overlap, intergrade, interache..."

ada or ardor - vladimir nabokov

[beforevenice]

Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.

// Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

[tyin-cherry-knots]

reading articles that dissect Lolita and Ada or ardor while listening to nitty gritty dirt band is crazy

[beljar]

And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.

Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969

[faerie-aurora]

"One could not endure the agony of consciousness, the filth of life, the loss, the loss, the loss."

-Vladimir Nabokov, from Ada or Ardor

[rueroyale]

I wanted to be smart enough for this, to look up every reference and “get” as much of it as I could. I wanted to be better than those readers who were too tired to look up all the French and Russian. But no, I’m not better than them. I’m an amateur, a noob. I’ll read through Ada or Ardor once, ok? And hope that I’ll have enough left in me to reread and rereread.

[ofide]

lmfao?

[ruinsoftime]

She was soon ready, and they kissed tenderly in their hallway, between lift and stairs, before separating for a few minutes. “Tower,” she murmured in reply to his questioning glance, just as she used to do on those honeyed mornings in the past, when checking up on happiness: “And you?” “A regular ziggurat.”

— Vladimir Nabokov. Ada, or Ardor.

[soleul]

He deliberately endeavored to prolong the glow of its incognito by dwelling on the last vestiges of jasmines and tears in a silly dream; but the tiger of happiness fairly leaped into being.

[nabakovian]

my favorite parts of ada are the ridiculous stupid jokes nabokov makes which i just have to assume weren't really funny to anyone but him even when he first wrote it lol. like i was reading today, and i saw that there's a character in the book named johnny rafin, esq., and i looked in the annotations, and it said that it was a play on the name rafinesque, a scientist who a kind of violet was named after. and i was confused so i looked it up on the online annotations, which kept referring to pansies, and it dawned on me that this whole roundabout thing was just nabokov's way of saying that this man is gay 😭

[castratedvader]

Ada or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov

[colderthanthemoon]

“I don’t know. I adore you. I shall never love anybody in my life as I adore you, never and nowhere, neither in eternity, nor in terrenity, neither in Ladore, nor on Terra, where they say our souls go.” — Ada

[aranazo]

A Spanish edition of Ada or Ardor (Ada o el Ardor) by Vladimir Nabokov with a cover by Lookatcia.

[suspiciouslynotapastor]

Bought Camp Damascus. But I have to finish Ada or Ardor first. But the author keeps taking five detours per sentence. But I want to read the book I just bought. But I have to finish the book I'm reading first. You see my dilemma???

[ladystrallan]

Vladimir Nabokov writes BEAUTIFULLY, but can he please not mention bugs every 5 seconds in Ada or Ardor???