Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
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BOOK SUMMARY
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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
BOOK REVIEWS
"The only convincing love story of our century." Vanity Fair
"Lolita blazes with a perversity of a most original kind. For Mr. Nabokov has distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farceLolita seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero, who never deludes or excuses himself, brings into grotesque relief the cant, the vulgarity, and the hypocritical conventions that pervade the human comedy." Atlantic Monthly
"Intensely lyrical and wildly funny." Time
"The conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind, in which vice or folly is regarded not so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a measure of tragic sympathyThe reciprocal flow of irony gives to both the characters and their surroundings the peculiar intensity of significance that attends the highest art." The New Yorker
"Lolita is an authentic work of art which compels our immediate response and serious reflectiona revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors." San Francisco Chronicle
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679410430
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679410430
Copyright: 1993
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 92052931
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 1.05
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