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Lolita is an enduring masterpiece because the admirable and enchanting capacity for beauty, as seen in Humbert’s evocative narrative, is cojoined in a twisted but deceptive way with the phenomenon of evil.
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Aug 18, 2015 · Lolita is a major work of fiction; it is also a shocking book. Prefaced by a fictitious academic fathead who presents it as a message to “parents, social workers, [and] educators,” the...
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov. This book is notable for it's controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he kidnaps and sexually abuses after becoming her ...
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September 1958 Issue. Here it is at last, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (Putnam, $5.00)—first issued in 1955 by an unorthodox Paris press after being rejected by a string of American publishers ...
Jul 7, 2006 · The book, which can be viewed as an allegory for Europe's relationship with America, offers a depiction of love that is as patently original as it is brutally shocking.
What does the Watch and Ward Society say of it? What does Sartre, Graham Greene or Partisan Review? This is hard on any book. “Lolita” stands up to it wonderfully well, though even its author has...
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Sep 24, 2005 · Vladimir Nabokov's ''Lolita,'' that disquieting story about a suave and silver-tongued European émigré who seduces a 12-year-old American girl, was published 50 years ago this month, and Vintage...
