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Vladimir Nabokov on a Book Entitled Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov on a Book Entitled Lolita. Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male," such were the two titles under which the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates.

Vladimir Nabokov’s most popular book is Lolita. Books by Vladimir Nabokov. Showing 30 distinct works.

Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male, such were the two titles under which the writer of the present note .

Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male, such were the two titles under which the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates.

On the one hand, there is a story and characterization in Lolita – an interesting story and interesting characterization, actually

On the one hand, there is a story and characterization in Lolita – an interesting story and interesting characterization, actually. But my perhaps simplistic take on postmodernism dictates that in focusing on the story and the characters, I am missing some larger point – that by taking the characters literally I am being hopelessly unsophisticated in my evaluation of the book.

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather. Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores. I found a. job-teaching English to a group of adults in Auteuil. Then a school for boys employed me for a couple of winters.