Created during ten years and published in the USA in 1969 novel of Vladimir Набокова "Hell, or Gladness of passion" after appearance won scandalous glory of the "erotic best seller" and awarded arctic reviews from the side of of that time literary critics| reputation of one of the most ambiguous набоковских books accompanies to him and till today. Playing with narrative canons at once a few genres (from a domestic chronicle толстовского type to the science fiction novel), of Набоков created nearly most difficult from the works, becoming quintessence of his former themes and creative receptions and counted on very experience in literature, even elite reader. History of blinding, engrossing, forbidden passion, blazing up between protagonists, Ada and Ваном, in adolescence and carried through the decades of the secret meeting force separations, treasons and reunions, transforms under the feather of Набокова in многоплановое research of possibilities of consciousness, properties of memory and nature of Time.Contains an unprintable bad language