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Local DescriptionLolita is disgusting, perverse, vile, repulsive, but my god is it brilliant. Nabokov shows us this story as a bouquet of dead flowers, shriveled, dried-up, and pitiful to look at- but beautiful, beautiful in all its aroma of death. Is it shameful to admit that this book is perhaps my favourite novel ever? Then, if so, gentlemen of the jury, consider me shameful. We are introduced to Humbert Humbert, a man who is so famously claimed to be unreliable narrator, this I agree with. He is easy to hate, but it is also easy to find yourself feeling sorry for him- it is twisted. You feel sick, when you, the supposed jury, observer of this story, begin to allow this man to plea his case. The eloquence with which he is written is hypnotizing. Yet any well minded individual would quickly snap out of this illusion and proceed with the verdict we all know is true- because of Lolita. Oh Lolita. DescriptionThe story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both carnally and artistically, Humbert embarks on a disastrous courtship that can only end in tragedy. Author descriptionVladimir Nabokov was born in St Petersburg in 1899, but he left Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power. His family moved to England for a brief spell and finally settled in Berlin. His first novel in English was The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, published in 1941. His other books include Ada, Laughter in the Dark, Details of a Sunset and Lolita, his best-known novel. Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland in 1977. |