What's the book "Lolita" about?

Question

I'm interested in the book, and I want to know more about the story. Did anyone read it? How did you like it? What's the story? Is it a good book? Where can I get a copy (a good one)? Will it be weird naming your child Lolita?

Answer 1

The other answers are accurate, but I would like to add that author Vladimir Nabokov's greatest accomplishment with this book is that he created a *likeable* pedophile character. It is fascinating to feel so close to a person who does something that most of us consider to be immoral and disgusting. Also, this is a very sexual book, but it is not too explicit, and it is definitely literature, not pornography. (By that I mean the purpose of the work is to demonstrate something about human nature, not to merely arouse readers.)



Now about your question of what edition to buy: Unless you speak French, get THE ANNOTATED LOLITA by Alfred Appel Jr. There are about three to five French phrases per page in this book, and Appel's footnotes are extremely helpful. You can find this on half.com for around $5 plus shipping.

Answer 2

Vladirmir Nabokov's novel "Lolita" is about the erotic passion of Humbert Humbert (a mature man) for Dolores Haze, the diminutive of which is Lolita, a girl of 14 years old. It's a very good book, considered by the theoreticians of Postmodernism as an exemple of intertextuality (there are many hints at Poe's "Annabel Lee" and some other romantic poems) but also as a novel concerned with the subtle relation between love and death, taking into consideration that many of the characters of the book finally die in tragic circumstances. It's not at all a pornographic novel, although it was considered so in the 1950's, when it was banned in the USA and had to be first published in Paris. Maurice Couturier, a contemporary French critic considers the book "a poerotic novel", namely a book concerned with the relation between erotism and poetic imagination.

Answer 3

It is a remarkably well written book, done as an autiobiography of the main character, Humbert Humbert. he marries a hot-to-trot widow to get his hands on her young daughter. Lots of twists and nasty characters, a surprisingly enjoyable read.



Incidentally, Lolita is not actually the name of the girl, but her nckname. The character's given name is Dolores Haze.

Answer 4

i admire strains and words extra beneficial than i admire the "books" of Shakespeare. i'm that way with all books, incredibly. i like to study a dozen words that in simple terms provide up me. And now, a interest. i pass to open a "finished Shakespeare" and element blindly, see what number situations I could try this earlier i hit upon some thing properly worth quoting right here.... One: Henry IV area one million Hotspur (having in simple terms been ordered via the king to "deliver us your prisoners.") And if the devil come and roar for them, i won't deliver them: i will after right this moment And tell him so, for i will ease my heart, Albeit I make a threat of my head. isn't that plenty extra helpful than the "Eff that, I ain't gonna do what he says" which you will pay attention in as we communicate's leisure? Sorry, that grow to be the alternative of an answer.

Answer 5

Lolita is about a man in love with a young girl, and how they manipulate each other. Don't name your kid Lolita - she'll never be taken seriously.