“Ada” Nabokov. Place of consciousness: Brian Boyd

The most important key to the whole work of Vladimir Nabokov is the most complex, multifaceted and multi -layered novel “Hell”, consciously written so as to stun and confuse even the most sophisticated reader. Brian Boyd’s book allows you to see in the outwardly chaotic interweaving of plot moves, allusions and cross -references a single thematic pattern, a strict and elegant structure that unexpected, but so characteristic of Nabokov, turns the world of the novel upside down and turns it from a hymn of sensuality into a study of the essence and the role of human consciousness, its position in time and the moral of it and the moral. responsibility.
Brian Boyd, professor at the University of Oddland (New Zealand) is the author of the definitive biography of V.V. Nabokov and a number of books on his work. Boyd turned to the novel “Ada” in his dissertation, and this book became the result of many years of thoughtful and detailed analysis.

Author
Boyd Brian
Translator
Creimer Gennady
Artist
Losev Pavel
Publisher
Symposium, 2012