Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov: The Mesmerizing Lolita (1014 words)
by - written on 16.03.02
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Vladimir Nabokov Lolita is the most amazing love story I have ever encountered. Like James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov demonstrates an acute understanding and precise execution of the English language. A large vocabulary and the talent to develop characters and their characteristics is the main benefactors behind Vladimir Nabokov' literature. Lolita is an extensively complex book, but in retrospect this is an advantage rather than a hindrance as I viewed it at the time. Compact with humour, intelligence and formation, Vladimir Nabokov has attempted to absolve so much into the pages of Lolita. Masterfully, I found myself in awe at the manner in which Vladimir Nabokov has ...

America of my dreams... (840 words)
by pontecaille - written on 18.08.01 (Very useful, 106 readings)
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40 years after its publication the book Lolita is still an object of scandal. Few consider this novel as an encouragement to paedophilia and it was actually refused in its time by the whole lot of American editors. Of course Nabokov knew what he was writing and by telling the love affair between a man of 40 years old and a girl of 12 he was aware he would drag much more than attention but also criticism. Lolita is a cheeky, vulgar and spoiled girl (who considers the sexual act belonging to the furtive world of youth, a world unknown to adults) but her arrogance doesn’t take away her sexual charms to Humbert’s eyes (a middle-aged guy completely ...

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov: Light of my life, fire of my loins... (357 words)
by spacelamb - written on 01.02.01 (Very useful, 94 readings)
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This is a very difficult book both to read and to review, which is not a reflection on the writing (outstanding), but on the subject matter. The main character, Humbert, recounts the story of Lolita from his prison cell. He is a paedophile. It is a shame to give away the story so I will leave the details out! - but he marries a woman to get close to her beautiful (and precocious) 12 year-old daughter Lolita. The wife dies (did she fall or was she pushed?) and Humbert goes on the run with Lolita. They enter into what she naively sees as a kind of 'relationship', and he sees as...well, it's hard to say. His professions of love for her ring ...