Appel, A.

Nabokov's Dark Cinema

New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Item #15332

Hardcover. 324 pp., ills.
Very good, without dust jacket.

Alfred Appel Jr. was an American professor, author and journal editor noted for his investigations into the works of Vladimir Nabokov, modern art, and jazz modernism. He edited The Annotated Lolita, an edition of Nabokov's Lolita. He also authored four other books about Nabokov, literature and music.

As a student at Cornell University, Appel took a course from Nabokov. His education was interrupted by a stint in the Army, after which he completed his undergraduate education and PhD in English Literature at Columbia University in 1963.

Nabokov's best critic here demonstrates how extraordinarily important the material of popular culture can be in the creation of works of high art. Lolita takes a central place in this book: Mr. Appel discusses its roots in American popular culture, Nabokov's part in the making of Kubrik's filmed version, and the film itself. All of Nabokov's works are treated, and many other writers are discussed.

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