Status Updates From Ada ya da Arzu

Only Nabokov could manage to write a book brimming with the most beautiful and affecting paragraphs about romantic love that the human language has ever witnessed only for it to concern incestual love between cousins who later find out they’re SIBLINGS☠️if that’s not the definitive mark of a consummate writer then idk what is

Believe me when I say that this one somehow manages to surpass Lolita in the depth of its descriptive lasciviousness/lewdness….also perhaps I’m reading into it too literally to overlook certain aspects of the incredibly fraught relationship at the novel’s center but praying that the allegorical significance becomes more apparent soon