Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading a double life, for the most remarkable demonstration of his fictional powers is a novel virtually unknown in the U.S. or abroad. As dark and demoniac as Pnin is gentle and sunlit, this novel has in the past year become a sotto voce scandal on two continents. Lolita, published in English by France's Olympia Press, gives the pornography-v.-art debate its most combustible tinder since Judge Woolsey handed down his famed decision on Ulysses...
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...
...Picasso family. "Come at 11." Telephoning for an appointment at the Barcelona apartment, Editor Bernier got a surprising answer: "Come at 11 tonight." Once inside, she found herself plunged into the world of a gypsy encampment. "The lights burn out all the time here," Picasso's niece Lolita explained. Added Nephew Juanin: "And the fuses always blow up." In the semidarkness, Rosamond Bernier saw a room cluttered with ancient furniture, presided over by Picasso's smiling sister, Doña Lola, wrapped in a sheet held together with safety pins, and flanked by two more Picasso nephews, both...
Before the sentencing, Lolita Lebroón was allowed to address the court. Said she: "I love you and I love the world and I love God ... I ask God to forgive you and I forgive you, too." Judge Holtzoff was less willing to forgive. The four conspirators, he snapped, had shown no remorse for their "crime, so heinous, so infamous, so daring and atrocious...