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  • Awe and exhilaration - along with heartbreak and mordant wit - abound in Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Most of all, it is a meditation on love ... Continue

    Awe and exhilaration - along with heartbreak and mordant wit - abound in Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Most of all, it is a meditation on love - love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

    

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  • The new translation is better.

    

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  • Finish this because I cannot find the novel version. (and was looking for the term "Lolita" originally come from)
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    This is a movie script about Pedophilia. But I don't think the relationship between 2 main roles are pedophilia but fondness. Lolita is simply the model of the fondling kid ... Continue

    Finish this because I cannot find the novel version. (and was looking for the term "Lolita" originally come from)
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    This is a movie script about Pedophilia. But I don't think the relationship between 2 main roles are pedophilia but fondness. Lolita is simply the model of the fondling kid that asking for everything without thinking what she should and should not do. Humbert, of course, is the "father" who loves Lolita so much that allow her to ask whatever she wants.
    I don't like the way how script present the novel but I am not going to read it anyway.

    

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• ― 月魂‧蝶舞 said on Apr 12, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story 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. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

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