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EDITOR'S NOTE. Boyd's newly expanded book is absolutely essential for
every student of Nabokov. To have it available in an inexpensive print
form (as well as digital) is a boon to all.
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Subject: RE: Boyd's Nabokov's ADA second edition in paperback
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:41:44 +1200
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson'" <chtodel@gte.net>
>From Brian Boyd, University of Auckland
Dear List,
Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness (Cybereditions, 2001), second
edition with 353 pages, including a new preface, illustrations, four new
chapters, two new indexes and a note on ADA editions, has been announced
previously on the list, but only in an e-book form unappealing to many..
It is now available in a handsome paperback form, for $22.95 from Barnes and
Noble, orderable at
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=3FDRJCFRNB&
mscssid=N7AKT1RVLJTB9ND42CQUTM8M6UF9D5QD&isbn=1877275301
(If this reaches you as two separate lines, you will need to join them up
again for the hyperlink to work.)
More information (as well as hyperlinks to purchasing either the paperback
or e-book form) is available through Cybereditions, at
http://www.cybereditions.com/spis/runisa.dll?FY:CYVIEWSUMMARY:238177:10014
>From the back cover:
Comments on the first edition
"Magnificent."
Simon Karlinsky, Washington Post
"Brian Boyd . . . knows more about Nabokov's longest and most complex book
than any other scholar. . . . the book seriously engages Nabokov's
metaphysics and ethics and brings them to bear on his chef-d'oeuvre. . . a
major contribution to Nabokov scholarship and a delight for all serious
students of Nabokov."
D. Barton Johnson, Slavic and East European Journal
"Exceptionally fine . . . provides not only the best commentary on the
novel, but also a most perceptive overview of Nabokov's art in general. . .
. a brilliant overview of Nabokov's metaphysics."
Stephen Jan Parker, Understanding Vladimir Nabokov
"The most thorough-going investigation of Ada to date, and with application
outside this novel to Nabokov's entire production and philosophy."
Jane Grayson, Slavonic Review
"A deep and clear treatise of Nabokov's artistic ontology, where 'new
horizons loom on every page' (as William James said of another philosophical
work)."
Gennadi Barabtarlo, Phantom of Fact: A Guide to Nabokov's Pnin
>From the Cybereditions blurb:
In a new preface Boyd places Nabokov's Ada in its initial context and in the
context of his later work and subsequent critical discussion. Four new
chapters offer overviews and introductions to Ada, written in the late 1980s
and the 1990s, from a variety of new vantage points inside and outside the
novel. An Index of Passages in Ada allows readers to check for discussions
of particular chapters of the novel, while a detailed General Index serves
those interested in Ada in particular or in tracing Nabokov's style or
thought in general.
every student of Nabokov. To have it available in an inexpensive print
form (as well as digital) is a boon to all.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Boyd's Nabokov's ADA second edition in paperback
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:41:44 +1200
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson'" <chtodel@gte.net>
>From Brian Boyd, University of Auckland
Dear List,
Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness (Cybereditions, 2001), second
edition with 353 pages, including a new preface, illustrations, four new
chapters, two new indexes and a note on ADA editions, has been announced
previously on the list, but only in an e-book form unappealing to many..
It is now available in a handsome paperback form, for $22.95 from Barnes and
Noble, orderable at
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=3FDRJCFRNB&
mscssid=N7AKT1RVLJTB9ND42CQUTM8M6UF9D5QD&isbn=1877275301
(If this reaches you as two separate lines, you will need to join them up
again for the hyperlink to work.)
More information (as well as hyperlinks to purchasing either the paperback
or e-book form) is available through Cybereditions, at
http://www.cybereditions.com/spis/runisa.dll?FY:CYVIEWSUMMARY:238177:10014
>From the back cover:
Comments on the first edition
"Magnificent."
Simon Karlinsky, Washington Post
"Brian Boyd . . . knows more about Nabokov's longest and most complex book
than any other scholar. . . . the book seriously engages Nabokov's
metaphysics and ethics and brings them to bear on his chef-d'oeuvre. . . a
major contribution to Nabokov scholarship and a delight for all serious
students of Nabokov."
D. Barton Johnson, Slavic and East European Journal
"Exceptionally fine . . . provides not only the best commentary on the
novel, but also a most perceptive overview of Nabokov's art in general. . .
. a brilliant overview of Nabokov's metaphysics."
Stephen Jan Parker, Understanding Vladimir Nabokov
"The most thorough-going investigation of Ada to date, and with application
outside this novel to Nabokov's entire production and philosophy."
Jane Grayson, Slavonic Review
"A deep and clear treatise of Nabokov's artistic ontology, where 'new
horizons loom on every page' (as William James said of another philosophical
work)."
Gennadi Barabtarlo, Phantom of Fact: A Guide to Nabokov's Pnin
>From the Cybereditions blurb:
In a new preface Boyd places Nabokov's Ada in its initial context and in the
context of his later work and subsequent critical discussion. Four new
chapters offer overviews and introductions to Ada, written in the late 1980s
and the 1990s, from a variety of new vantage points inside and outside the
novel. An Index of Passages in Ada allows readers to check for discussions
of particular chapters of the novel, while a detailed General Index serves
those interested in Ada in particular or in tracing Nabokov's style or
thought in general.