Dear Marianne,
I wonder if you could you spare the time to communicate some of those humorous stories?  Much obliged, Fran Assa


 



 

Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 14:18:01 -0400
From: cotugnm@MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] ANNC: Sad new about Alfred Appel Jr.
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU

I just saw this news on the NYT and was going to post the same link.  Very sad.
 
I began speaking with Mr. Appel via telephone a few years ago when I began my On the Road With Lolita project.  He recounted to me some humorous stories of how annotations found their way into his well-known edition.  I was very grateful for his generosity to me and his interest in my project. 
 
Marianne

From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On Behalf Of NABOKV-L [NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:07 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: [NABOKV-L] ANNC: Sad new about Alfred Appel Jr.

Alfred Appel Jr., a former student of Nabokov and a Nabokovian whose edition of The Annotated Lolita shaped many readers' understanding of that novel, is dead.  Appel played a major role in helping to establish the academic study of Nabokov in the 1970s, and he will be greatly missed.  Here is his obituary from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/arts/07appel.html?_r=1&hpw
 
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