Bibliographic title
Ada, the Bog and the Garden: or, Straw, Fluff, and Peat: Sources and Places in Ada
Periodical or collection
Nabokov Studies
Periodical issue
v. 8
Page(s)
107-133
Publication year
Abstract
The influence of Nicholas Freeling's Double-Barrel on Nabokov's incorporation within Ada of motifs relating to Dutch veen (peat, bog) as complications of the idyllic or paradisiac garden of Ada, with additional observations on the theme of Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights in the novel.
Internet link
Reprinted as Ch. 25 of Boyd, Brian: Stalking Nabokov.