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Pursuit of Nymphets. The theme of Nabokov's Lolita is the carnal pursuit of a twelve-year-old American girl named Dolores Haze by a middle-aged European emigre in the U.S. named Humbert Humbert. The lurch toward the farcical, implicit in the hero's name, sets the mood and tempo of the entire work. The first of the novel's two volumes becomes an elaborately breakneck, amorally funny chase that mixes the Marx Brothers with Krafft-Ebing. This blurs but does not erase the underlying sensuality of Humbert's admittedly perverse tastes...
...shocker that leaves Humbert a chastened European innocent is that Lolita seduces him. For she is an experienced hoyden who has already been ravished at a fashionable summer camp. In the second volume the sexual farce is more corrosive and the human comedy less exuberant. The couple embark on a kind of illicit grand tour of the 48 states; the settings-hotels, motels and tourist traps-have the infernal cast of a Hieronymus Bosch painting...
...Humbert's would-be child bride is stolen from him by a playwright with an Aztec Red convertible. When Humbert sees Lolita again she is a post-nymphet 17, pregnant and married to a wholesome ex-G.I. But she still loves the playwright, and in a hilarious and nightmarish murder scene Humbert pumps bullet after bullet into him while the victim protests with phony British aplomb: "Ah. that hurts, sir, enough! Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you, desist...
...HOMER HUMBERT Rockville...
Verve & Nerve. Réaltiés was founded in 1946 on unlimited hope and a meager $5,000 by two aggressive young businessmen, Humbert Frerejean and Didier Rémon. Frerejean, then 31, was working in the personnel department of a steel concern, and Rémon, then 24, with a management consultant. They originally planned a FORTUNE-style magazine for French business, but Réaltiés' scope was soon broadened under Editor Max, 41. A onetime French wire service correspondent, Max studied U.S. publishing methods while living in the U.S., where...