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Lolita

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 381

'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, Observer Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's fixation is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe. 'There's no funnier monster in literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert' Independent

Vladimir Nabokov

Autor: John Lennard

Número de Páginas: 118

An illuminating study of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel with special attention to its film versions. From its first publication in 1955 Nabokov's Lolita has been denounced as immoral filth, hailed as a moral masterpiece, and both praised and damned for stylistic excess. In this fresh appraisal John Lennard provides convenient overviews of Nabokov's life and of the novel (including both Kubrick's and Lyne's film-adaptations), before considering Lolita as pornography, as lepidoptery, as film noir, and as parody.

Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov's

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 7

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is a controversial and thought-provoking novel that explores the themes of pedophilia, obsession, and the nature of love. The novel is told from the perspective of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze, whom he nicknames Lolita.

D’une "Lolita" l’autre : Heinz von Lichberg et Vladimir Nabokov

Autor: Michael Maar

Número de Páginas: 98

Quand Michael Maar publia en mars 2004 dans la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, aussitôt relayée par le Times Literary Supplement, qu'une nouvelle intitulée Lolita avait paru près de quarante ans avant le célèbre roman de Vladimir Nabokov, il déclenchait un débat de portée internationale et provoquait un vif émoi parmi les Nabokoviens. Son propos est né de la découverte, extraordinaire, de la Lolita publiée par Heinz von Lichberg, nom de plume d'Heinz von Eschwege, à Darmstadt en 1916. Or, le motif littéraire développé par Lichberg est déjà celui qui, en 1955, animera l'inoubliable nymphette. Pour faire bref, on peut dire qu'entre 1916 et 1955, de Lichberg à Nabokov, de la pâleur d'une Lolita, Darmstadt au scandale qui agita Lolita, Texas, on passe d'une ébauche façonnée par un journaliste plumitif, désormais tombé dans l'oubli, à un chef-d'œuvre de la littérature mondiale. Il n'en demeure pas moins que de singuliers liens surgissent, qu'il suffise de citer les sources hoffmanniennes de Lichberg et l'attraction d'E.T.A. Hoffmann sur Nabokov ; la vie d'exilé menée par ce dernier à Berlin de 1922 à 1937, et sa fréquentation du milieu littéraire ;...

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

Autor: Christine Clegg

Número de Páginas: 172

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

Autor: Ellen Pifer

Número de Páginas: 219

Eight reprinted essays, mostly from the 1990s, examine various facets of the Russian exile's 1955 novel that has raised literary, legal, and religious hackles since it was first published. Also included is a 1967 interview with Nabokov by Herbert Gold. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Book Analysis)

Autor: Bright Summaries

Número de Páginas: 25

Unlock the more straightforward side of Lolita with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, which is the enthralling and disturbing tale of Humbert, a man in his forties, who falls in love with a young girl, soon becoming her stepfather and taking advantage of this position to pursue a vastly unsettling romance with her and fulfil his illicit desires. Lolita is regarded as one of the prime achievements in 20th century literature, though also among the most controversial, and its assimilation into popular culture is such that the name ‘Lolita’ has been used to imply that a young girl is sexually precocious. Nabokov has achieved international prominence, and has been a finalist for the American National Book Award for Fiction seven times. Find out everything you need to know about Lolita in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: · A complete plot summary · Character studies · Key themes and symbols · Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in...

Lolita: A Screenplay

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 240

The screenplay for Kubrik's 1962 film tells the story of an older man's obsession with a young girl.

Lolita

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov , Enrique R. Pezzoni , Hombrenuevo

Número de Páginas: 236

Lolita es la novela más conocida del escritor ruso Vladimir Nabokov publicada por primera vez en 1955 que trata sobre la obsesión sexual de un hombre de mediana edad por su hijastra de 12 años.1 2 3 4 5 No exenta de polémica, está considerada por muchos críticos y académicos como una obra maestra de la literatura universal contemporánea y un clásico moderno

Lolita ou le tyran confondu

Autor: Didier Machu

Número de Páginas: 443

On croit connaître Lolita de Nabokov, best-seller illustre et scandaleux. Or, si c'est le livre d'une passion et d'une possession, dans tous les sens de ces deux termes, sa signification demeure cachée en pleine lumière. Comme Humbert y est contraint, le lecteur est convié à une jubilatoire enquête dans les détails et le lacis du texte, avec des résultats gratifiants. Tyran impérialiste et poltron, monstre qui se veut Apollon, Humbert s'empare d'un corps d'enfant comme d'un continent. Mais, au terme, dans le Nouveau Monde où ce Hitler domestique rencontre la démocratie autant que la culture de masse (cinéma, bande dessinée...), la figure dionysiaque de Quilty, son double, renverse son personnage et son ordre.

Best Romance Books of All Time LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov | All-Time bestseller Romance Fiction Book | From All-time Russian Bestseller Author of Books Like: Lolita / Pnin / Speak, Memory

Autor: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov , Lolita Book , Lolita

Número de Páginas: 302

From the Author of Books Like: 1.Lolita 2.Pnin 3.Speak, Memory 4.Laughter in the Dark 5.Invitation to a Beheading 6.The Luzhin Defense 7.Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle 8.Despair 9.The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov 10. Pale Fire Best Romance Books of All Time LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov About the Book: Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust. About the Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian-American novelist. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made significant contributions to...

Lolita

Autor: Vladimir Nabakov

Número de Páginas: 420

“Kisah cinta paling meyakinkan sepanjang zaman.” —Vanity Fair Lolita adalah novel indah yang abadi. Lolita bahkan dianggap sebagai salah satu novel terbaik sepanjang masa oleh para kritikus. Begitu populernya kisah ini hingga sempat dua kali difilmkan. Sempat dilarang beredar di Amerika Serikat, novel ini hingga kini terus diperbincangkan orang dan menjadi buku laris di berbagai negara. Lolita berkisah tentang pengakuan seorang profesor setengah baya bernama Humbert Humbert yang terobsesi dengan seorang gadis remaja, Dolores Haze—sang Lolita. Untuk bisa berdekatan dengan Dolores, Humbert menikahi ibu gadis itu. Setelah sang ibu tewas dalam sebuah kecelakaan, Humbert membawa anak tirinya berkelana mengelilingi Amerika Serikat, menikmati cinta terlarang dengan segala manis getirnya. Kisah ini menjadi indah antara lain karena kepiawaian Vladimir Nabokov dalam melukiskan nuansa psikologis tokoh-tokohnya, terutama sosok Lolita yang kenes dan Humbert yang berkepribadian rumit. Di atas segalanya, novel kontroversial ini adalah kisah luar biasa tentang kekuatan cinta. “Satu di antara tiga novel paling berpengaruh di dunia.” —Time

Lolita

Autor: Vladimir Vladimirovič Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 332

Lolita

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 192

Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel was first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, later translated by the author into Russian and published in 1967 in New York. The novel is both internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the book's narrator and protagonist Humbert Humbert becoming sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl named Dolores Haze. After its publication, the novel attained a classic status, becoming one of the best known and most controversial examples of 20th century literature. The name "Lolita" has entered pop culture to describe a sexually precocious young girl.

Opiniones contundentes

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 376

La primera edición completa en castellano del clásico de Nabokov, que reúne entrevistas, cartas al director y artículos siempre mordientes y cargados de intención. «Pienso como un genio, escribo como un autor distinguido y hablo como un niño.» Así comienza Nabokov el prefacio a este volumen, que recoge entrevistas, cartas al director y más de una docena de artículos (secciones, estas dos últimas, inéditas hasta hoy en castellano). Sobre todo a partir del éxito de Lolita, tanto novelístico como cinematográfico, Nabokov concedió diversas entrevistas en las que repasaba algunos aspectos biográficos y literarios de su personalidad, de sus rutinas como lector y como escritor, de sus filias y sus fobias. Pero las «opiniones contundentes» del autor ruso las encontramos en especial en sus cartas a diversas publicaciones y en sus artículos, donde da rienda suelta a su barroco ingenio y a su afilada prosa para hablarnos de autores como Jodasévich y Sartre, de los críticos obsesionados con los símbolos y de las vicisitudes editoriales que rodearon la publicación de Lolita. Aunque sin duda donde más afila Nabokov sus colmillos es en la polémica que levantó su...

Quicklet on Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Autor: Kate Russell

Número de Páginas: 94

Quicklets: Learn More. Read Less. Nabokov conceived the idea for Lolita after reading a news story in late 1939 or early 1940. The story was about a primate who produced the first drawing ever sketched by an animal, the subject of which was the bars of his cage. Inspired by the sad animal's perspective of imprisonment, Nabokov penned a short story with a roughly similar plot to Lolita. There were several differences between this first version and the final: firstly, the girl's mother was sick; secondly, the girl was French (Nabokov had not yet moved to the United States); thirdly, it was written in Russian; finally, the narrator chucks himself under a moving truck after only one attempt to take advantage of the child. Lolita is rated as a twentieth century classic. Time magazine included it on its "100 Best Novels" list. Modern Library rated it fourth on its 1998 list of the 100 Best Novels. BOOK EXCERPT From the Introduction by Kate Russell: The first time I read Lolita, I spent a very long time on each page, overwhelmed by the amount of layers in every word and sentence. One sentence was like reading a page of any other author's work (except James Joyce, of course). I had no...

Lolita

Número de Páginas: 542

Lolita

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 384

The famous novel about a European intellectual in America, whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him.

The Annotated Lolita

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 548

Nabokov's wise, ironic, and elegant masterpiece. • A controversial love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. • This annotated edition assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. • Edited with a preface, introduction, and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr. "Fascinatingly detailed." -Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov et de Stanley Kubrick

Autor: Lara Delage-toriel

Número de Páginas: 191

Aux côtés de Roméo et Juliette, de Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde, de Carmen, Don Juan et Don Quichotte, Lolita est aujourd'hui une figure mythique dont la renommée a voyagé par-delà les frontières de la littérature pour embrasser non seulement les autres arts, mais également l'ensemble de notre paysage culturel, de l'Amérique à l'Asie. Si le roman, d'abord paru en France en 1955, ainsi que son adaptation cinématographique par Stanley Kubrick en 1962, sont devenus mondialement célèbres, il n'en reste pas moins que Lolita, en tant qu'oeuvre littéraire, demeure difficile d'accès. La présente synthèse se donne pour mission de débrouiller les réseaux complexes tissés par le romancier afin de dégager l'essence de son oeuvre et la mettre à la portée tant de l'étudiant que du lecteur averti. Elle offre égale-ment une manière de face-à-face entre les deux Lolita à l'origine du mythe, le roman et sa première adaptation cinématographique par Kubrick. La Lolita de Kubrick ayant quelque peu pâti du dédain de la critique, l'objectif de cette synthèse est aussi de sortir de l'ombre une oeuvre qui mérite qu'on s'y attarde, ne serait-ce que parce qu'elle a eu l'audace...

La perra

Autor: Pilar Quintana

Número de Páginas: 73

Una conmovedora novela de Pilar Quintana. Damaris, una mujer del Pacífico entrada en la madurez y con muchas decepciones a cuestas, adopta a una perra y la llama Chirli, como hubiera querido llamar a la hija que nunca tuvo. Nace, así, una relación intensa y entrañable, en la que Damaris pone todo de sí para enderezar un destino que ya creía del todo torcido. En el 2018, Pilar Quintana ganó el Premio de Narrativa Colombiana por esta novela. La crítica ha dicho "En la costa del Pacífico colombiano, lejos de la idílica postal, vive Damaris junto a su marido Rogelio. En este rincón del planeta la vida no conoce seguridad y los sueños conviven con las más cruentas pesadillas. Todos se encuentran cercados: tanto por el paisaje sobrecogedor como por sus convulsos horizontes internos. En La perra, Pilar Quintana hila con extraordinaria maestría la naturaleza humana junto al caos del universo. Es una novela llena de incógnitas sobre los deseos incumplidos, la culpa y los lugares por donde aún circula el amor". Gabriela Alemán "La perra es una novela de una violencia verdadera. Como la artista que es, Pilar Quintana encuentra heridas que no sabíamos que teníamos, señala...

Vladimir Nabokov

Autor: Barbara Wyllie

Número de Páginas: 223

Best known for his deeply controversial 1955 novel, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is celebrated as one of the most distinctive literary stylists of the twentieth century. In Vladimir Nabokov, Barbara Wyllie presents a comprehensive account of the life and works of the writer, from his childhood and earliest stories in pre-revolutionary Russia, to The Original of Laura—a novel written almost entirely on index cards published for the first time in 2009, perhaps against Nabokov’s wishes. This literary biography investigates the author’s poetry and prose, in both Russian and English, and examines the relationship between Nabokov’s extraordinary erudition and the themes that recur throughout his works. His expertise as a specialist in butterflies complemented his wide knowledge of Russian and Western European culture, philosophy, and history, and informed the themes of transformation and transcendence that dominate his work. Wyllie traces his lifelong preoccupations with time, memory, and mortality across both his Russian and English works, and she illuminates his distinctive through detailed analysis of his major novels. Wyllie assesses his poetry and prose style...

ÒLight of My LifeÓ

Autor: James D. Hardy, Jr. , Ann Martin

Número de Páginas: 208

Vladimir Nabokov, one of the 20th century’s greatest novelists, is particularly remembered for his masterpiece Lolita. The present work examines the enduring themes of Lolita and places the novel in its biographical, social, cultural and historical contexts. Of particular interest are questions of love in all of its manifestations, the central problem of time in the book, and memory as it is explored in fictional memoir or, in this case, the central protagonist’s “confession.”

Lolita

Autor: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 326

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)When it was published in 1955, "Lolita" immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. Awe and exhilaration-along with heartbreak and mordant wit-abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love-love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.With an Introduction by Martin Amis "From the Hardcover edition."

A Study Guide for Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

Autor: Gale, Cengage Learning

Número de Páginas: 15

A Study Guide for Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

El hechicero

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 68

La edición de El hechicero, un texto inédito de Nabokov, ha sido saludada internacionalmente como un acontecimiento literario de primera magnitud. El hechicero, que fue calificada por Nabokov como «la primera palpitación de Lolita», cuenta también, en efecto, una historia de paidofilia, pero con un enfoque, un desarrollo y una intensidad peculiares, y tan extraordinarios como los de la novela que hizo mundialmente famoso a su autor. El protagonista es aquí un caballero de posición acomodada, atormentado por los interrogantes que le plantean sus inclinaciones eróticas, se enamora un día de una niña de doce años a la que conoce por casualidad en los jardines de una gran ciudad europea. Incapaz de contener sus impulsos, el caballero decide acercarse a la niña casándose con su madre, una viuda cuyo estado de salud ofrece serias dudas. Tan metafórico como siempre, pero más explícito que nunca en las escenas eróticas, este nuevo Nabokov nos muestra al gran escritor en plena posesión —en pleno disfrute, habría que decir— de su talento creador, calibrando matices, midiendo efectos, mezclando astutamente lo trágico y lo cómico, el horror del pecado y el picante de ...

Curso de literatura europea

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 522

Nabokov nos da las pautas para una lectura sagaz, heterodoxa y apasionante de grandes libros europeos Vladimir Nabokov, lejos de generalidades y teorizaciones, enseña a sus alumnos a "acariciar los detalles" y apasionarse con la lectura de Austen, Dickens, Stevenson, Proust, Flaubert, Joyce y Kakfa. Estas lecciones apasionadas y apasionantes, reconstruidas más tarde por Fredson Bowers a partir de los apuntes del maestro, son una ocasión única para releer a fondo las grandes novelas de la literatura europea. A lo largo de casi dos décadas, antes de alcanzar la celebridad con Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov impartió cursos de literatura en las universidades estadounidenses de Wellesley y Cornell, y sus clases han llegado a constituir una leyenda. No es frecuente que los estudiantes tengan por maestro a uno de los mejores autores del momento, pero tampoco lo es que un novelista añada a su talento una vocación didáctica tan nítida y eficaz, y tan libre de convencionalismos académicos. Reseña: «Unas privilegiadas, sustanciosas e irremplazables meditaciones sobre el arte de la ficción.» Michael Dira, The Washington Post

The Enchanter

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 144

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.

Lolita

Autor: Didier Machu , Taïna Tuhkunen-couzic

Número de Páginas: 283

Conçu en trois parties – études du roman, du film, études croisées – ce volume propose des approches délibérément variées de Lolita, livre scandaleux, best-seller, livre-culte de Vladimir Nabokov, et film d'un réalisateur tout aussi hors normes et talentueux, Stanley Kubrick. Replaçant le roman et le film dans le contexte où ils ont vu le jour, conjoignant synthèses et analyses, il en éclaire des aspects essentiels. Il vise tant à mettre en lumière les modalités de fonctionnement et les choix stylistiques propres à l'un et l'autre qu'à faire apparaître les liens et les ruptures entre deux oeuvres à lire et relire, à voir et revoir.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 706

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to bittersweet tales of loss, from claustrophobic exercises in horror to a connoisseur's samplings of the table of human folly. Read as a whole, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov offers and intoxicating draft of the master's genius, his devious wit, and his ability to turn language into an instrument of ecstasy.

La auténtica Lolita

Autor: Sarah Weinman

Número de Páginas: 346

«Lolita», de Vladimir Nabokov, una de las novelas más apreciadas y célebres de todos los tiempos, se inspira en un caso real: el secuestro en 1948 de Sally Horner, una niña de once años.

The Original of Laura

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 320

When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-five—the Russian novelist’s only surviving heir, and translator of many of his books—has wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his father’s wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrative—dark yet playful, preoccupied with mortality—affords us one last experience of Nabokov’s magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work. Photos of the handwritten index cards accompany the text. They are perforated and can be removed and rearranged, as the author likely did when he was writing the novel.

Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov

Autor: Robert Golla

Cover -- Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- The Author of Lolita-an Unhurried View -- Author of Lolita Airs Views on Censorship, Role of Artist -- Vladimir Nabokov and Lionel Trilling Discuss Lolita -- What Hath Lolita Wrought? -- My Child Lolita -- An Absence of Wood Nymphs -- The Author of Lolita -- Nabokov -- Vladimir Nabokov Discusses Lolita -- After Lolita: A Conversation with Vladimir Nabokov-with Digressions -- The Man Who Scandalized the World -- V. Nabokov Unresting -- Vladimir Nabokov on his Life and Work -- Playboy Interview: Vladimir Nabokov -- On the Banks of Lake Léman: Mr. Nabokov Reflects on Lolita and Onegin -- USA: The Novel-Vladimir Nabokov -- Nabokov -- The Artist in Pursuit of Butterflies -- An Interview with Vladimir Nabokov -- Vladimir Nabokov: The Art of Fiction XL -- "To be Kind, to be Proud, to be Fearless"--Vladimir Nabokov in Conversation with James Mossman -- Nabokov: A Portrait -- Understanding Vladimir Nabokov-A Red Autumn Leaf is a Red Autumn Leaf, Not a Deflowered Nymphet -- An Interview with Vladimir Nabokov -- Checking in with Vladimir Nabokov -- Vladimir Nabokov on the Loose -- ...

Chasing Lolita

Autor: Graham Vickers

Número de Páginas: 260

In the summer of 1958, a 12-year-old girl took the world by storm—Lolita was published in the United States—and since then, her name has been taken in vain to serve a wide range of dubious ventures, both artistic and commercial. Offering a full consideration of not only “the Lolita effect but shifting attitudes toward the mix of sex, children, and popular entertainment from Victorian times to the present, this study explores the movies, theatrical shows, literary spin-offs, artifacts, fashion, art, photography, and tabloid excesses that have distorted Lolita's identity with an eye toward some real-life cases of young girls who became the innocent victims of someone else's obsession—unhappy sisters to one of the most affecting heroines in fiction. New insight is provided into the brief life of Lolita and into her longer afterlives as well.

Lolita

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 331

In this Readers' Guide, Christine Clegg examines the critical history of "Lolita" through a broad range of interpretations. Although early criticism of the text polarized around 'that' question - is it literature or pornography? - the influence of American critics such as Lionel Trilling quickly secured canonical status for the novel. A compelling aspect of "Lolita" criticism is the way in which that question continues to return in different forms. In the 1980s and 1990s, "Lolita" has been the subject of diverse critical attention, beyond 'Nabokov Studies': from Richard Rorty's philosophical inquiry into the ethics of cruelty, to Rachel Bowlby's feminist analysis of the rhetoric of consumer culture in the novel. All of the main critical approaches to the novel are covered by this indispensable sourcebook.

The Annotated Lolita

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 546

Nabokov's wise, ironic, and elegant masterpiece. • A controversial love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. • This annotated edition assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. • Edited with a preface, introduction, and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr. "Fascinatingly detailed." -Edmund Morris, The New York Times Book Review When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Лолита : роман

Autor: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov , О. Б. Мошина , G. A. Panteleev

Número de Páginas: 319

The Eye

Autor: Vladimir Nabokov

Número de Páginas: 128

Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Nabokov's protagonist, Smurov, is a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in prewar Berlin, who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indignities in the afterlife.