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Sep 12, 2024 · Lolita, novel by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1955 in France. Upon its American publication in 1958, Lolita created a cultural and literary sensation. The novel is presented as the posthumously published memoirs of its antihero, Humbert Humbert.
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Sep 22, 2024 · Vladimir Nabokov — ‘Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the p...
Sep 13, 2024 · I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.”. ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita.
Sep 22, 2024 · “Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.” ― Vladimir Nabokov ...
Sep 11, 2024 · Who is Lolita? The Nabokov literary classic has sparked infinite discussion in the 65 years since its release, but the cultural memory the book has left behind lives more in romance and fashion aesthetics than a cautionary tale about a deceptive predator and his young prey.
3 days ago · Le récit est écrit comme la longue confession d'un homme, Humbert Humbert, se présentant comme « nympholepte » Lo 1 et décrivant la relation qu'il a eue avec Dolorès Haze durant plusieurs années. Au début du roman, Humbert a 37 ans et la jeune fille, qu'il surnomme « Lolita », a 12 ans et demi.
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2 days ago · Nabokov like Molotov. The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. —Vladimir Nabokov. When I grow up, I want to be like Vladimir Nabokov, whose early life was a sweep of my dreams of Europe, born to a Russian upperclass family in St. Petersburg ...
