Lolita
Penned by Russian émigré turned American novelist Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977), Lolita ranks high among twentieth-century fictional works that have achieved literary acc...
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov, a novelist, poet, playwright, and translator, as well as a collector of butterflies and inventor of chess problems, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, ...
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Biography EssayVladimir Nabokov, one of the most important world novelists of the twentieth century, was almost unique in changing languages in mid career, from Russian to English. Not identified with...
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The Russian-born American poet, fiction writer, critic, and butterfly expert Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of his time, was noted for his sensuous and lyrica...
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Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian émigré who began writing in English in middle age, is considered one of the most brilliant and inventive writers of the twentieth century. A trilingua...
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It is a paradox that Vladimir Nabokov's life and career dramatically involved him in the most powerful socio-historical currents of the twentieth century: Marxist revolution, exile, politics, the sexu...
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Vladimir Nabokov is one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century--and a thoroughly international one whose work is as carefully read in France, Germany, Japan, and Finland as in his ho...
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Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov wrote novels, short stories, poems, translations, and literary criticism. His novels firmly established him as one of the best stylists of the twentieth centur...
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Critical Essay by Ben Cameron
Evaluating Edward Albee's Lolita solely on the basis of injustices done to the Nabokov novel is a disservice to the play; such evaluation misses Albee's la...
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In the following essay, Patnoe offers a close reading of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita that endeavors to demonstrated how its title character is an adolescent victim of molestation rather than a yo...
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In the following essay, Centerwall argues that Nabokov sublimated his own unacted-upon pedophilia in the composition of Lolita.
It is thirty years since Lolita hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-...
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In the following essay, Anderson argues that in Lolita Nabokov alludes to the Nazi holocaust and to the potential nuclear holocaust.
Particularly since the end of World War II and the development o...
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In the following essay, Pifer argues that in Lolita Nabokov reworked fundamental themes found in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Knowledge of Nabokov's privileged background has tended t...
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An interpretation of Nabokov's Recognition of America throughout Lolita
Lolita is a tale of chronic molestation. The book written, by Vladimir Nabokov, originates in France where a young Humbert Hum...
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Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is written as a confession by Humbert Humbert, the book's narrator. He is incarcerated for the murder of a man named Clare Quilty. Humbert was married once before this happe...
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Woolworths stores in Britain have stopped selling "Lolita" beds for young girls after a parents' organization complained because of the name's association with the famous novel about a pedophile.Wo...
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At the New York Film Festivalâs opening night party, which was held on Friday, Sept. 28, at the elegantly faded, labyrinthine Central Park restaurant Tavern on the Green, the actre...
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WASHINGTON(Reuters) - Several Supreme Court
justices expressed doubt Tuesday that a law barring child
pornography could be applied to popular award-winning movies
like "Lolita," "Traffic," Americ...
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Following is a summary of odd news briefs compiled from
stories that have run separately and are available in full on
the file.
Shop pulls "Lolita" bed for young girls LONDON (Reuters) - A chain...
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Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, based on Mr. Miller's series of graphic novels, makes it look like we're at the end of Western civilization as we know it. One has only to itemize its ...
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Delicate snares are everywhere in Lolita, and the tread of 50th anniversaries can be as crushing as Hallmark (and middle age). So let’s insist on this: The book is still brand-new, drying on ...
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Heavens to Betsy, thank goodness we’re in the home stretch of this cruel, godforsaken month. O.K.! The man you can blame for the yellow-rubber-bracelet thing, Tour de France winner and Matth...
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“There are only so many things you can count on in this world,” declares Rebekah Kettle, the protagonist of Jennifer Belle’s third novel, Little Stalker. “I know that every ...
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