Summary
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Lolita, one of the most significant novels of the 20th century, the masterpiece of the master of storytelling Vladimir Nabokov, has been attracting the attention of readers, critics and literary scholars for 65 years - partly because of its controversial subject matter, partly because of a series of literary and intertextual puzzles, but also because of its unsurpassed style which caused, and still causes, indescribable pain to translators around the world.
The story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged pervert and esthete, who is in love with the flirtatious twelve-year-old girl Dolores Hayes, is only the beginning of the wide thematic spectrum of this work: starting with the lost love of his youth, through sick lust, obsession, the split between Humbert's imagination and reality, delusion and hope; on the other hand, this work is not at all easy to mold into one genre, because Nabokov skilfully combines them endlessly, combining memoirs, diaries, poetry, travelogues, fairy tales...
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