(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)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, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century’s novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author’s use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account 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, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.With an Introduction by Martin Amis
Can a book change your life? I’m not sure it can. I think it can influence the way you think for a time, but it’s usually people and events that create change. However, a book that made me stop and think was Lolita.
Source: Shelf AwarenessIf I could choose one book to be able to read again for the first time, it would be Lolita.
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Maybe my favorite book of all time.
Source: Shelf AwarenessThis is the book that I most want to read again for the first time.
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Lolita is one of my all time favorite books by Nabokov.
Source: Shelf AwarenessI am an evangelist for Lolita.
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