Island or Desire

In Island or Desire, Nabokov reminds the reader that thanks to our memory, we can carry our childhood or the "golden age" we left behind with us. Nabokov keeps this well-known, simple idea alive with an extraordinary poetics and an effort to keep the present and the past alive in the same sentence at the same time. (...) Just as Lolita's Humbert Humbert lives heaven in the love of a child, Van and Ada want to live in heaven by extending their childhood love throughout their lives. Here, Nabokov tried to carry childhood to old age with a reverse, elegant and very assertive somersault. Since Nabokov knew that he could not keep this golden age alive neither in America nor in Russia, he created a third dream country, a literary paradise, from the memories of these two countries (...) In Island or Desire, all of Nabokov's jokes, separations and We see with admiration that she speaks Turkish with her strange beauty.
- Orhan Pamuk -



Number of Pages: 576

Year of Printing: 2008


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 576

First Print Year: 2002

Language Turkish