Article
Another Adelaida: Dostoevsky’s The Idiot in Nabokov’s Ada
Modern Languages Faculty Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2015
Disciplines
Abstract
It appears…that Ada scholars have overlooked the only Adelaida existing in major Russian literature. It is Adelaida Yepanchina, the middle daughter of General Yepanchin in Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1868). All three daughters have names starting with "A": Alexandra, Adelaida, Aglaya (compare this to Nabokov's Anya-Ada-Asya).
Citation Information
Fet, Victor and Slav N. Gratchev. “Another Adelaida: Dostoevsky’s The Idiot in Nabokov’s Ada.” The Nabokovian, no. 74, Spring/Fall, 2015, pp. 6-10.
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