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So if you’re interested in why someone might want to read a book from the perspective of a grown man sexually obsessed with a twelve year old, or why someone might not want to read a book full of Nabokov’s beautiful, acrobatic sentences, you might skim some of the below-with fair warning that, if you’re anything like me, you’re likely to get sucked straight into an internet beef over a decade old. In addition, with about 100 pages to go, this book deteriorates in an irritating postmodern way as if, all along, he didn't really have any poignant point to make and was just. Setting aside the irony of critiquing a work being both salacious and dull, I’d argue, while allowing for varieties in taste, that both of these are essentially misreadings-and so would a lot of the commenters on these one-star reviews.īut interestingly, of all the bad reviews of this type I have surveyed, Lolita has produced the most intense-and thoughtful, productive, and intellectually complex-arguments so far. Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov.The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the sexual assault of 12 year old American girl Dolores Haze by a middle-aged French literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. Nabokov is undoubtedly an incredible near-genius writer, and this is an excellent and interesting novel, but something about his work always leaves me feeling cold. Actually, with a few exceptions, the dissenters in Lolita‘s one-star Amazon reviews fall into two major camps: they either find the book too morally repulsive or they find it too boring. And there’s also the whole Humbert Humbert issue. From Vladimir Nabokov, the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, comes a magnificent collection. Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (10 April 1899 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
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Some people really hate fancy prose, you guys! Yeah, I don’t get it either. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov amazon Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov free d0wnl0ad pdf Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov pdf free Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov pdf. There’s no denying that Lolita is controversial.