Word: lolitas
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...Lolita, Nabokov...
...Than Lolita, no book in years has been more talked about in Great Britain, and none less read. In the U.S., Vladimir Nabokov's brilliantly written, shockingly decadent novel (TIME, Sept. 1) about a middle-aged man's obsession with a teenage nymphet has been riding high on bestseller lists for more than four months. But the British, who usually consider themselves more sophisticated in such matters than Americans, have turned the case into a major public brawl involving a seat in Parliament, the British obscenity laws, Novelist Graham Greene, and some of Britain's top literary...
...ruckus began four years ago when acerbic John Gordon, 68, chief editor of the sensational Sunday Express (circ. 3.426,753), noticed that Graham Greene had listed Lolita, then published by Olympia Press of Paris, as one of the best books of 1955. Gordon sent to Paris for a copy, pronounced it "about the filthiest book I've ever read...
Britain's Conservative government has not decided whether it will accept all or part of the Jenkins bill. But if the reform fails, Publishers George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson risk prosecution should they bring out Lolita. The matter is complicated by the fact that Nicolson, 42, is also an M.P., who was previously in trouble with his local Bournemouth Conservative Association for opposing government policy on Suez (TiME, Feb. 2). Admitted a Conservative M.P. last week: "Lolita is the main issue. Suez has been replaced." Said a local politico: "A director of a firm intending to publish this vulgar...
...Lolita, Nabokov...