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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
is a novel by
Vladimir Nabokov
, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York, and later translated by Vladimir Nabokov into Russian.
The book Lolita
is internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle-aged Humbert Humbert, who becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze.
After its publication,
Vladimir Nabokov
's
Lolita
attained a classic status, becoming one of the best-known and most controversial examples of 20th century literature. The name "
Lolita
" has entered pop culture to describe a sexually precocious girl.
The novel Lolita
was adapted to film by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne.
Lolita
is narrated by Humbert Humbert, a literary scholar born in 1910 to a Swiss father and an English mother in Paris, who is obsessed with young girls, whom he refers to as "nymphets". Humbert suggests that this obsession results from the death of a childhood sweetheart, Annabel Leigh. After an unsuccessful marriage to Valeria, Humbert moves to Ramsdale in 1947, a small New England town, to write. He rents a room in the house of Charlotte Haze, a widow. While Charlotte tours him around the house, he meets her 12-year-old daughter, Dolores, with whom he immediately becomes infatuated. Humbert stays at the house only to remain near her... (Summary by Wikipedia)
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