Alfred Appel — новинки

Book DescriptionHow does the jazz of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker fit into the great tradition of modernist art? In this book, an eminent cultural historian provides the answer and offers a

"A good deal of Kinbote's commentary [in Pale Fire] was written here in the Montreux Palace garden, one of the most enchanting and inspiring gardens I know, now disfigured by a tennis court and a parking lot. I'm especially fond of its weeping cedar, the arboreal counterpart of a very shaggy dog with hair hanging over its eyes", says Nabokov