Freedom,Games And Time

Vladimir Nabokov is recognized as a famous writer of the 20th century, also enjoying good reputations as novelist, poet, critic, translator and entomologist all over the world. As his longest and most favorite novel Ada or Ardor:A Family Chronicle (hereinafter Ada for short) was published in 1969, it almost produced the same sensational effect with Lolita. The Chinese version appeared in 2013, paid huge attention by the Chinese academic circles.Ada tells us an incest love story between brother and sister who have the same parents but different family names. In this pinnacle work Nabokov used free content conception, the narrative clue of space and time, and the language feature of playing games, creating the memoirs full of obscurity and complication and difficult to be understood, to show the distinct features of post-modernism. This paper used the post-modern uncertainty theory, the related narratology theory and the language game theory as the pointcuts, and combined with Nabokov’s literature and artistic views to layer-by-layer analyze the post-modern features from contents to forms in the close reading way.This paper has five chapters, divided into three main parts:introduction, main body and conclusion. Introduction is the first chapter, mainly introducing Nabokov’s life and works, the combination of literary conception and the postmodernism, and the research status of Nabokov. The main body includes chapter two, three and four, analyzing Ada in details in the close reading way:Chapter two starts from the uncertainty theory and uses plots, images, themes as the breakthrough points to specifically explain his thoughts and creation freedom; Chapter three uses the postmodern narrative theoiy as the foundation to analyze the novel features, the combination of narrative perspectives and narrative time and space, showing a strong sense of time; Chapter four combines the postmodern literature form and uses language game as the breakthrough point to analyze the parody, insinuation and paronomasia appear in the paper; Chapter five summarizes the literature significance and values of Nabokov and Ada, and the enlightenment significance to contemporary literary circles.