An edition of Lolita. A Screenplay (1974)

Lolita

a screenplay

1st Vintage International ed.
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An edition of Lolita. A Screenplay (1974)

Lolita

a screenplay

1st Vintage International ed.
  • 24 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

As it charts the hypnotized progress of Humbert Humbert, a hypercivilized and amoral European emigre, into the orbit of a treacherously lovely and utterly unimpressionable preteen, Lolita: A Screenplay gleefully demolishes a host of stereotypes - sexual, moral, and aesthetic. Not least among the casualties is the notion that cinema and literature are two separate spheres.

For in his screenplay, Nabokov married the structural and narrative felicities of great cinema to prose as sensuously entrancing as any he had ever written, resulting in a work that will delight cineasts and Nabokovians alike.

Publish Date
Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
213

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Lolita
Lolita: scénario
January 14, 1998, Gallimard, GALLIMARD
Paperback
Cover of: Lolita
Lolita: a screenplay
1997, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage International ed.
Cover of: Lolita
Lolita: A Screenplay
1983, McGraw-Hill Book Company
Paperback in English - First paperback edition
Cover of: Lolita: a screenplay
Lolita: a screenplay
1974, McGraw-Hill
in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1974.

Published in
New York
Genre
Drama.
Other Titles
Lolita (Motion picture)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/72
Library of Congress
PN1997 .L66 1997, PN1997.L66 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 213 p. ;
Number of pages
213

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL991872M
Internet Archive
lolitascreenplay0000nabo
ISBN 10
0679772553
LCCN
96030305
OCLC/WorldCat
35029685
Library Thing
64263
Goodreads
32579

Work Description

Here is the text of Nabokov's own screen adaptation of his celebrated novel, written in California in 1960 for the director Stanley Kubrick. The film was made by Kubrick, with heavy modifications of Nabokov's script, and released in 1962 - a critical and commercial success. In his forward to this book, Nabokov records his reaction upon seeing the final result - "a mixture of aggravation, regret, and reluctant pleasure...Kubrick saw my novel in one way, I saw it in another."

This book provides a fascinating look into the creative process, showing a writer's struggle to turn his own literary masterpiece into a movie script. This is a must for students of the problems of novels versus movies and for fans of Lolita, the novel and the movie.



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