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7 de jul. de 2006 · Why 'Lolita' Remains Shocking, And A Favorite Author Bret Anthony Johnston offers his endorsement of the classic. Part of the genius in Vladimir Nabokov's tale of pedophilic love, says Johnston ...
A 1997 film adaption of Lolita directed by Adrian Lyne starred Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, and Melaine Griffith. Read the full book summary, an in-depth character analysis of Humbert Humbert, and explanations of important quotes from Lolita.
29 de jan. de 1993 · You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent Martin Amis, Observer Nabokov's command of words, his joy in them, his comic and ecstatic use of them, makes reading his work such an intense joy
With a screenplay penned by the author himself, Stanley Kubrick brings Vladimir Nabokov's controversial tale of forbidden love to the screen. Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is a European professor ...
Before Lolita begins her affair with Clare Quilty, her mother mentions his uncle Ivor, the town dentist, and sends Lolita to summer at Camp Q (near the propitiously named Lake Climax). These are just a few of the coincidences that make Lolita so profoundly unsettling.
Though Humbert sweeps Lolita away so that they can find a measure of freedom, their exile ultimately traps them. Lolita is bound to Humbert because she has nowhere else to go, and though Humbert dreams of leaving America with Lolita, he eventually accepts that he will stay in America until he dies.
2 de mar. de 2021 · If ‘Lolita’ was offered to me today, I’d never be able to get it past the acquisition team — a committee of 30-year-olds, who’d say, ‘If you publish this book we will all resign.’”
