Dear Nabokovians,
The next instalment of my Ada annotations, on the 57th of the novel's 69 chapters, Part 3 Chapter 3, is now available on this website, here. The notes to Part 3 Chapter 1, with links to the text, motifs, and illustrations, are now available at AdaOnline.
The new chapter is one of my favorites: Van's meeting with Lucette in Paris, seen at first in terms of Toulouse-Lautrec's Divan Japonais poster and Barton & Guestier's "The wines you loved in Paris!" advertisement. Enjoy! (The detailed illustrations will have to wait until the AdaOnline version).
As usual I thank Steve Blackwell and Diana Makhaldiani for their lynx-eyed proofreading and fertile suggestions. I thank Alexey Sklyarenko also for permission to quote from one of his unpublished texts and for new information he has offered.
Brian Boyd
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