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Refering to Carolyns feeling about "religion in Ada"
I recommend a french book called "Leçon littéraire sur
Vladimir Nabokov, de la Méprise à Ada", (Literature
lesson about VN from Despair to Ada) (Paris, Presses
universitaires de France, collection Major, 1995), by
Jocelyn Maixent.
The author makes an inventory of biblic themes and
hints scattering through the novel.
For instance :
-the apple is always links to Ada/Van couple ;
-"ada" in russian means "hell" (cf. Aquas letter in
Part one, chapter 3 in fine)
-Ardis is an edenic place : explicit reference to the
snake and Knowledge tree at the end of chapter 9 (part
one)
-the name of "Ardis Hall" sounds both like "Paradise"
and "Hell"
-some letters of "Adam & Eve" are mixed and reversed
in "Ada & Van",
and so on. The whole book is interesting.
Best regards
Olivia Cham
--- "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu> wrote:
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> chaiselongue@earthlink.net -----
> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 08:49:23 -0800
> From: Carolyn <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
>
>
> Dear Don,
>
> I noted recently that I felt a neglected motif in
> Ada was RELIGION - - and
> listening to a lecture on Paradise Lost, I heard
> something that struck me as
> perhaps being relevant. The lecturer stated that
> some critics came to think
> that in Eden Milton was portraying the New World &,
> the lecturer continued,
> his own opinion is that both Eden & Pandemonium
> (haha!) are two New Worlds.
>
> I thought that was very interesting.
>
> Carolyn
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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I recommend a french book called "Leçon littéraire sur
Vladimir Nabokov, de la Méprise à Ada", (Literature
lesson about VN from Despair to Ada) (Paris, Presses
universitaires de France, collection Major, 1995), by
Jocelyn Maixent.
The author makes an inventory of biblic themes and
hints scattering through the novel.
For instance :
-the apple is always links to Ada/Van couple ;
-"ada" in russian means "hell" (cf. Aquas letter in
Part one, chapter 3 in fine)
-Ardis is an edenic place : explicit reference to the
snake and Knowledge tree at the end of chapter 9 (part
one)
-the name of "Ardis Hall" sounds both like "Paradise"
and "Hell"
-some letters of "Adam & Eve" are mixed and reversed
in "Ada & Van",
and so on. The whole book is interesting.
Best regards
Olivia Cham
--- "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from
> chaiselongue@earthlink.net -----
> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 08:49:23 -0800
> From: Carolyn <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
>
>
> Dear Don,
>
> I noted recently that I felt a neglected motif in
> Ada was RELIGION - - and
> listening to a lecture on Paradise Lost, I heard
> something that struck me as
> perhaps being relevant. The lecturer stated that
> some critics came to think
> that in Eden Milton was portraying the New World &,
> the lecturer continued,
> his own opinion is that both Eden & Pandemonium
> (haha!) are two New Worlds.
>
> I thought that was very interesting.
>
> Carolyn
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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