This novel recounts how electricity was banned following a mysterious event called the L-disaster. One character in this novel commits suicide by jumping off the Tobakoff after watching the movie Don Juan's Last Fling. Another of its characters bribes Kim Beauharnais to burn down a barn in order to spend summer nights with her lover at Ardis Hall. Its fourth section consists of the transcript of one character's lecture "The Texture of Time." Its title character is the da
This novel recounts how electricity was banned following a mysterious event called the L-disaster. One character in this novel commits suicide by jumping off the Tobakoff after watching the movie Don Juan's Last Fling. Another of its characters bribes Kim Beauharnais to burn down a barn in order to spend summer nights with her lover at Ardis Hall. Its fourth section consists of the transcript of one character's lecture "The Texture of Time." Its title character is the daughter of Marina and Demon, and corrupts her innocent half-sister Lucette. This novel is mostly set in the country of Amerussia, and takes place in an alternate Earth called Antiterra. Subtitled "or Ardor," for 10 points, name this novel published in 1969 about the incestuous love affair between Van Veen and the title woman, written by Vladimir Nabokov.
This novel recounts how electricity was banned following a mysterious event called the L-disaster.
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle