Lolita: Annotated Edition
by (us) Written By Vladimir Nabokov Annotated By Alfred Appel Jr.
About This Novel
More than 900 annotations and an index of word games place "Lolita" in a broader context. Annotated edition of the first modern novel published during the author's lifetime. "Lolita" is the most allusive and word-playing novel since "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake." The reader must grasp the outline of the story while grappling with the difficult issues posed by the profound material and the richly crafted prose. As a student of Nabokov and an expert on Nabokov's works, Alfred Appel Jr. Wrote and annotated the preface to "Lolita". He also visited the teacher many times with more than 900 interpretation annotations of his own to verify whether it was true. Not only did he not delete the annotation Nabokov denied, he also wrote the process of the discussion between the two, and attached Nabokov's original rebuttal. The notes cover almost every aspect of the novel: translations of French words, dismantling of made-up words, comic etymology, American pop culture, puns, alliteration, symbolism, metaphor, jokes, parody, wordplay, literary allusions, cross-references... Using Nabokov's own In other words: "These are the nerves of the novel, the secret threads, the coordinates that are not easy to detect. This book is developed with the help of this method." This annotated edition not only solves local problems at the level of details, but also shows how these problems constitute the overall design of the novel.
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