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...Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. Brilliant, hilarious and horrifying, the book is a shocker, but also a memorable work of fictional...
Best Sellers 1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1) 2. Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (3) 4. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (4) 5. The Best of Everything, Jaffe (5) 6. Anatomy of Murder, Traver (6) 7. Exodus, Uris 8. The Mountain Is Young, Han Suyin (9) 9. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (7) 10. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote (10) NONFICTION 1. Only in America, Golden (1) 2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2) 3. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery 4. Inside Russia Today, Gunther (6) 5. On My Own, Roosevelt...
...Republic contracted the most visible case of split personality. Critic Conrad Brenner extolled the book for four pages, ended: "Vladimir Nabokov is an artist of the first rank, a writer in the great tradition . . . Lolita is probably the best fiction to come out of this country . . . since Faulkner's burst in the '30s. [Nabokov] may be the most important writer now going in this country." But later, the New Republic used a lead editorial to call Lolita an "obscene chronicle of murder and a child's destruction," somberly explained "what obliges us to differ with...
...most unlikely follower in the wake of Lolita is not a literary critic but a superannuated (27) nymphet named Rosemary Ridgewell, a tall (5 ft. 8 in.), slithery-blithery onetime Latin Quarter showgirl who wears a gold swizzle stick around her neck and a bubbly smile on her face. Well may she bubble; 17 months ago she "discovered" Lolita when she read excerpts in the Anchor Review and told an acquaintance about it. The acquaintance, now her fast friend: Walter Minton, president of Putnam's. Minton decided to publish the book, now has a major bestseller on his hands...
...part of the matter: the New York publishing world-which is small to the point of claustrophobia-knew all about Lolita. It had been published (in English) by Paris' Olympia Press, had been reviewed in the U.S. (TIME, March 18, 1957), but had not found a U.S. firm willing to take a chance on it. But Bookman Minton says he was not aware of Lolita until Reader Ridgewell brought it to his attention. Said Rosemary, happily swizzling a vodka on the rocks: "I thought Nabokov had a very interesting way of writing, very, you know-crystalline...