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Re: query re ada (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 08:53:31 -0800
From: Rodney Welch <RWelch@scjob.sces.org>
Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
>
> EDITOR'S NOTE. Although others may have responses, I would suggest the
> chapter on ADA in the second volume of Bryan Boyd's VN biography. John
> Updike's review is republished in one of his collections.
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> From: Dana Vlcek <"MRDV@SPRYNET.COM"@SPRYNET.COM>
>
> My book club is currently reading ADA. Any suggestions on criticism to
> read prior to our discussion? Most of the members are not interested in
> the more in-depth readings that literary scholars may give to a
> text--they need a few basic concepts to understand Nabokov's intentions.
> Help-- and enlightenment -- would be greatly appreciated.
I don't really have anything to add here, except to say that ADA is a
most interesting choice for a book club reading; of all N's works, I
found it the most laborious. Part of the reason, I suppose, is that it
was one of the first ones I tackled. If I were to read it again, I'm sure
I'd get a lot more out of it -- but oh, how dauntingly it stares at me
from the shelf. Maybe this is the year I'll take another crack at it; ADA
in one hand, Boyd in the other.
I'm in a reading club, and I've often thought of slipping in VN
somewhere, but I've been thinking more along the lines of
Lolita or Pale Fire or Invitation to a Beheading.
From: Rodney Welch <RWelch@scjob.sces.org>
Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
>
> EDITOR'S NOTE. Although others may have responses, I would suggest the
> chapter on ADA in the second volume of Bryan Boyd's VN biography. John
> Updike's review is republished in one of his collections.
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> From: Dana Vlcek <"MRDV@SPRYNET.COM"@SPRYNET.COM>
>
> My book club is currently reading ADA. Any suggestions on criticism to
> read prior to our discussion? Most of the members are not interested in
> the more in-depth readings that literary scholars may give to a
> text--they need a few basic concepts to understand Nabokov's intentions.
> Help-- and enlightenment -- would be greatly appreciated.
I don't really have anything to add here, except to say that ADA is a
most interesting choice for a book club reading; of all N's works, I
found it the most laborious. Part of the reason, I suppose, is that it
was one of the first ones I tackled. If I were to read it again, I'm sure
I'd get a lot more out of it -- but oh, how dauntingly it stares at me
from the shelf. Maybe this is the year I'll take another crack at it; ADA
in one hand, Boyd in the other.
I'm in a reading club, and I've often thought of slipping in VN
somewhere, but I've been thinking more along the lines of
Lolita or Pale Fire or Invitation to a Beheading.