Notes on Lolita.(allusions) From: Notes on Contemporary Literature | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: Meyers, Jeffrey | COPYRIGHT 2006 Notes on Contemporary Literature. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Alfred Appel, Jr., assisted by Nabokov himself, has clarified most of the diabolically devious (if not deviant) allusions in The Annotated Lolita (1955; NY: McGraw-Hill, 1970). But some important, and often sexually suggestive, references escaped his scrutiny.

18:18--Auteuil: district between the Seine and the Bois de Boulogne, absorbed into Paris in 1860.

33:23--Sunburst: metaphor for sexual orgasm.

3:25--Touch and Go: Humbert's mode of operation w...

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