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Luke Parker masterfully blends literary criticism and history of film in his book on Vladimir Nabokov's wide-ranging engagement with cinema. Nabokov Noir is a significant contribution to the fields of Nabokov studies and émigré culture.

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Modern Language Review

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Luke Parker's book is a rich offering that adds a great deal of texture to what we thought we knew about Nabokov's activities in the 1920s and 1930s. The book is part biography and part cultural history, looking closely at the world of Russian émigré life, mainly in Berlin during the decades in question.

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The Russian Review

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Nabokov Noir provides an engaging and stimulating look at one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Parker (Russian, visiting faculty, Amherst College) argues that Vladimir Nabokov's connections to US and European film industries illuminates his experience in exile.

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Choice

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Luke Parker presents a ground-breaking analysis of Nabokov's engagement with cinema culture in interwar Europe.

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