Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

I'll be reading this soon enough
whats your review on it?

seems great, i'm excited to start it.

 

its amazing, nough said

 

Lolita explores obsession and fixation.
Obsession and fixation is explored though both Professor Humbert and Lolita herself.

Desperately seeking the lost love and attention of a father figure, fatherless girls like Lolita will often become sexually attracted to older men.

Men, whose first youthful attempt at love fails, will often become fixated by that loss, and spend much if not all their adult lives trying to recreate and make successful their failed love.

Think of the great Charlie Chaplin.
As a teenager, Charlie was desperately in love with a young girl who instead married a more dependable store clerk.
Charlie never got over it.
He spent much of his adult life seeking teenage girls who reminded him of his lost love.

You girls need to remember the powerful influence you exert over the lives of boys.
Not that boys will ever be aware enough to recognize this.

 

One of the best books I've ever read. Humbert Humbert is such an amazing persoanage...

I love Nabokov, I'm currently reading "The Defense"

 

an invigorating peice of literature

 

Im planning on to read it so far i havent but i saw an amazing Kubrick's movie that i recommend

 

lolita is one of the three greatest books i have ever read. beautiful prose and disturbing content can create such a paradox... read it...everybody...please, read it!!

 

i started it tonight

 

I love it. I am about to start reading his book Bend Sinister

 

I read it in my later high school years and was so surprised with myself that I finished it. I had been studying French for a year or so at that time and all of the phrases and things, I skipped over. Now that I've studied la langue for almost four years now, I should go re-read.

I once read some author's description as it not only being a story about the love affair between Humbert and Lolita, but about Russian Nabokov's love affair with the English language. He uses structures and vocabulary that many Americans couldn't even begin to decipher sans un dictionnaire. Some of those passages left me breathless.

And I never finished Bend Sinister

 

Wait, now I'm not to sure about that English language thing for I can't remember if he wrote in English or Russian. Hold on.

On my copy (Vintage International), it doesn't specify. But he apparently moved to the U.S. in 1940; Lolita was published in '55. So I'll stick to my guns but can anyone prove or disprove? I haven't really studied the man's life that in-depth.

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. Wait. Nabokov said that shit himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita#Afterword

Peace out.

 

It is written so beautifully. A truely gorgeous book!

 

My reaction exactly. That this incredible book was written by a man whose native language was not English is to me one of the seven wonders of the universe. It is one of the top 5 books in the English language, as far as I'm concerned. One of my absolute faves of all time.

 

I wish he would have written it in English. The book makes no sense to me becase it has so many little places in it where it is not English. Perhaps that makes me a bafoon, but then thats fine you can think that about me. I know one thing the novel I will write will be all ENGLISH.

 

wait a minute

who moved my thread here??

i have to say i largely oppose

i would not categorise it as erotica.

 

i have to agree.... there are many words you could use, and many things you could say and analyze... but 'amazing' pretty much sums it up....

what amazed me was that english was nabokovs thrid language, the way he uses the language, he caressed it, his words are so smooth and so powerful, it's like some sort of poetry

 

Not too bad. I liked the first few pages but then I got a little bored with it. There's a film with I think its Jeremy Irons in it.

 

This is not erotica!
Great book

 

"Lolita" is one of the most exquisite pieces of literature you'll ever taste.

 

One of my all-time favourite books.Humbert Humbert is a lonely middle-aged man who falls in love with the beautiful nymphet daughter of his New Hampshire landlady:Lolita.
Quilty is the sinister producer of 'blue movies' which he gets Lolita to appear in.
The end of the book is a tragic end to this 'menage a trois'.
I believe the book was originally banned on both sides of the atlantic during the 1950s but was redeemed & became a multi-million paperback bestseller in the early 1960s.
Below is a film still from the quintessential 1962 Stanley Kubrick Film:




-The sinister Quilty(Peter Sellers),backstage ,as Lolita(Sue Lyon)
on the right,makes her apperance in the school play.