POST MODERNISM: Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov

Plot Summary:

Ada tells the life story of a man named Van Veen, and his lifelong love affair with his sister Ada. They meet when she is eleven (soon to be twelve) and he is fourteen, believing that they are cousins (more precisely: that their fathers are cousins and that their mothers are sisters), and begin a sexual affair. They later discover that Van's father is also Ada's and her mother is also his. The story follows the various interruptions and resumptions of their affair. Both are wealthy, educated, and intelligent. Van goes on to become a world-renowned psychologist, and the book itself takes the form of his memoirs, written when he is in his nineties, punctuated with his own and Ada's marginal notes, and in parts with notes by an unnamed editor, suggesting the manuscript is not complete.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_or_Ardor:_A_Family_Chronicle#Plot_summary)

My Criticism:

The novel is not that interesting because its theme is very usual and common known by people. The story line is not that well developed. The characters are believable as we can see in our social situation. The novel is somehow based on the experiences and memories of an individual. We can see now after modernization, people have changes and we can see lots of immorality.