Listen "Night School: Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (ch 1-10)"
Episode Synopsis
Comparisons to Tolstoy, Joyce, Proust are entertained and mused upon at the narrator's invitation, and we readers and rereaders are entertained and bemused by this puzzling, playful later masterpiece from the author of Lolita, a book that has been back in the news lately due to certain famous people whose lives have been tawdry imitations of its controversial art. Text and annotations: https://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/ Lolita in the news: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/jeffrey-epstein-nabokov-lolita/685320/ Readership and vice: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/reading-crisis-solution-literature-personal-passion/685461/ Thanks for listening.
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