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Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly written novel, lyrical, hilarious and horrifying, about a middle-aging emigre's love for a "nymphet," with highly ironic variations on the theme of American innocence and European corruption...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. This superb novel shuttles between the lyrical, the hilarious and the horrifying to tell of a middle-aging emigre's love for a "nymphet," with highly ironic variations on the theme of American innocence and European corruption...
...Hollywood make a movie about the love affair between a psychopathic middle-aged lecher and a twelve-year-old nymphet? When they bought Vladimir Nabokov's bestselling novel Lolita (TIME, Sept. 1), Director Stanley Kubrick and Producer James B. Harris gambled $150,000 that they will find an answer. "Basically," said Kubrick, "this story is a very funny character relationship." Hollywood wags saw one solution: make the principals a few years older and cast Maurice Chevalier opposite Brigitte Bardot...
...torn from the girl he married "a few weeks before the gentle Germans roared into Paris.'' One story. First Love-"true in every detail to the author's remembered life"-links Nabokov to an episode in the life of the notorious Humbert Humbert, Lolita's nymphet-chasing hero. In the story, the narrator is smitten by a cute little nymphetease on the beach at Biarritz-but it is only a poignant little saga of puppy love quickly brought to an end by the boy's tutor. Nabokov's Dozen lacks Lolita...
...Lolita will be attacked on moral grounds, but he humorously questions the moral standards of at least some U.S. publishers. One firm, he notes, offered to publish the book three years ago if he turned Lolita from a girl into a boy-homosexuality presumably being much more acceptable than nymphet-mania...