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The Thrill of Artistic Discovery,
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This review is from: Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness (Paperback)
I can only hope my Doctoral thesis will be this damn fascinating. A compulsive Nabokovian myself who laughed his way through Ada twice with all of the delightful puns and prose, lucid literary labyrinths, and meticulous mazes, never once did I think to connect in chapter ten (Botany Bay) Van's synonymous mollyblob with Molly Bloom (?!) which shows up later in the form of red ink, referring to Lucette. Brian Boyd's book is a carousel of connections. My only bore was the metaphysical stuff in section two, old news for me (though I would be liar to say I didn't learn), but still a thrill for the moderately experienced Nabokovian. Word to the wise, read the book meticulously at least once before you let Boyd give it all away.
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Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness by Brian Boyd (Paperback - October 1, 2002)
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