Title: Lolita Pdf
Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Published Date: 1997
Page: 317
Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover. Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion: "The only convincing love story of our century." —Vanity Fair"Lolita blazes with a perversity of a most original kind. For Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farce…Lolita seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero, who never deludes or excuses himself, brings into grotesque relief the cant, the vulgarity, and the hypocritical conventions that pervade the human comedy." —Atlantic Monthly"Intensely lyrical and wildly funny." —Time"The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind, in which vice or folly is regarded not so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a measure of tragic sympathy…The reciprocal flow of irony gives to both the characters and their surroundings the peculiar intensity of significance that attends the highest art." —The New Yorker"Lolita is an authentic work of art which compels our immediate response and serious reflection–a revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors." —San Francisco Chronicle
Romanticized pedophile Required reading for a Child Sexual Assault class. As usual, this is one of those books that I do not quite understand why it has the cult following that it does, especially seeing as how it's been made into movies, is required reading, etc. Nabokov does have a way with words and there is no denying his unique writing style and made up language/words that he uses. However, at the end of the day, the book is about a pedophile predator who is willing to go to any lengths to have his way with an underage girl. If that sort of thing interests you, then I suppose this is the book for you. If not, try some of his other work.Review Lolita? This is kind of like reviewing Canterbury Tales or The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The legend precedes the book and outruns any review. But here goes.We've all seen the movie, right? It IS a great film. But to read this book is far more frightening, disturbing and it's way more decadent and creepy. In a way it's kind of a horror story because the male protagonist, who narrates the book, is WAY CRAZIER than the character portrayed so well by James Mason in the film. He is a monster hiding in plain sight behind a teacher's mask. This book is so ahead of it's time.Interestingly, there are characters, namely Lolita and her sicko drama teacher, who are developed BETTER in the film than the book. Chalk that up to the director's vision. Well, to make a long story short, you HAVE TO read this modern classic.Excellent Read Nabokov's use of the English language is akin to watching Kasparov play chess with a dumbfounded opponent. My emotions were predicted about 9 moves ahead of where I assumed the Nabokov was taking me. I was disgusted with Humbert's pedophilial ways. As we read we are at first reminded of how young Lolita is. Often, I was pulled into situations that appeared to be normal through quick wit and grammatical trickery. Within the blink of an eye I was immediately pulled back into utter disgust. Nabokov would remind me how young Lolita was with a simple gesture that you would see from a child and not from an adult. I believe Nabokov played with readers to allow our disgust to dissipate for a split second only to show us how horrid a creature Humbert really was. It is obvious that Nabokov wants us to hate Humbert for his ultra controlling nature turning Lolita into his pleasure slave. Humbert never allowed Lolita to be a child. He never thought about what she wanted, what she needed. While Humbert pleasured himself at Lolita’s expense, Lolita cryed herself to sleep. That tore my heart to pieces. In the end Lolita did not seem to be angry with Humbert. There are delicate emotions that she placed deep into her subconscious. It is why I think she admits that she is not truly in love with her new husband and basically sees Humbert as nothing but a person who can provide her with money.. Lolita “admitting “ to Humbert that her true love was Quilty can possibly be a play on her part to rid her world of both Humbert and Quilty. Be warned. Try to go into this book with an open mind. It’s hard to get through some of the sensual parts of the book. If you do you will have a better understanding about the vitriol we feel towards pedophiles and a better understanding of the unrelenting compassion we need to keep showing the victims of these horrific crimes.
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