The Annotated Lolita
A Literature, Novels, Classics book. We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our...
Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.
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- Pages: 457 pages
- ISBN: 9780679727293 / 679727299
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It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita // And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita // We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night every night, every night the moment I feigned sleep. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita //
An old friend used to say that "Ulysses" was a good book to read but not a good book to "read". After reading "Lolita" I understand what he meant.Nabokov was a man obsessed with word games and this book is crammed cover to cover with many brilliant examples. Language delighted the man and that certainly comes across. What makes this... I recently got into an argument with a friend about Lolita. I contend that it's one of the most beautiful books ever written, and that it's twice as amazing because Nabakov wrote it in English (which is his second or third language). She contended that it was about a child molestor and was inexcusable.I argued that it was more about... The closest I've come to a literary hangover is Lolita, the literary and cultural phenomenon by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1955 (in France) and in 1958 (in the U.S.). I finished knocking back the intoxicating novel on Christmas Eve, before midnight, the clamor of a party next door rattling my rafters. I hope that those party-goers...
