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Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
''Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle'' is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969.
''Ada'' began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects, "The Texture of Time" and "Letters from Terra". In 1965, he began to see a link between the two ideas, finally composing a unified novel from February 1966 to October 1968. The published cumulation would become his longest work. ''Ada'' was initially given a mixed reception. But, writing in ''The New York Times Book Review'', noted scholar Alfred Appel called it "a great work of art, a necessary book, radiant and rapturous" and said that it "provides further evidence that he is a peer of Kafka, Proust and Joyce".〔(''New York Times'' review, May, 1969 )〕
==Title==
According to David Eagleman, Nabokov named the title character in part after his favorite butterfly. An avid collector of butterflies, Nabokov was especially fond of one species with yellow wings and a black body. As a synesthete, he associated colors with each letter; ''A'' was connected to yellow, and ''D'' to black. Thus he saw a reflection of his favorite butterfly (yellow-black-yellow) in the name Ada. This also makes sense because Ada wants to be a lepidopterist in the book.〔Strainchamps, Anne. Interview with David Eagleman. "(Seeing and Perceiving )". To the Best of Our Knowledge. ''Public Radio International''. Audio broadcast. Accessed on 8 February 2011.〕
"Ada" is also a pun, a homophone, for "Ardor". Marina, Ada's mother, pronounces her name with "long, deep" Russian "A"s, which is how a speaker of non-rhotic English would say the word "Ardor".
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