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Defining Lolita: the Novel and the Name In his essay, "On a Novel Entitled Lolita," Vladimir Nabokov tries to answer the age-old question, "What is the objective of the novel?" He quickly replies, "...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no other purpose than to get rid of that book..." (311). There is more to his response than this, however. He goes on to say that his book was not written to celebrate pornography or pedophilia, nor was it written to promote

constantly banned for one reason or another. Sometimes, however, censored literature proves to be the most insightful and most original. Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita has been subject to criticism and censorship since its first publication in 1955. Critics constantly degrade the novel as repulsive and an endorsement of pedophilia. Although Lolita was censored for its sexual and obscene content, the characterization of protagonist Humbert Humbert proves it to be just as appropriate as other literature

Humbert's Description of Lolita       In Chapter 31 of Part 1 of Lolita, Humbert and Lolita are in the lobby of the Enchanted Hunters only hours after consummating their sexual relationship. As Humbert arrives in the lobby to check out of the hotel, he observes Lolita as she sits reading a movie magazine in a large armchair, and his description of her progresses from a focus on her loss of innocence to a focus on her inner, demonic nature. As elsewhere in the novel, the reader here sees

Lolita is a very provocative and uneasy read for most people written by Vladimir Nabokov. His novel was released to the masses in 1955. In Nabokov’s novel he writes as if the main character Humbert Humbert is writing a letter to the jury defending himself and his pedophilic tendencies in the first person point of view. The novel received so much attention that later on in 1962, Stanley Kubrick made a film of Nabokov’s Lolita, which also attracted a lot of attention. The film and the book both have

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator. Through the years since the book was published there has been an emencice amount of controversy on the actual contents of the book, but when applying the psychoanalytic literary lens an entirely different understanding of the text is presented. Through an abstract point of view, an intense inner conflict in the narrator, and an unusual definition of beauty, the text evokes an intense emotional

Female art historian turned novelist, the late Anita Brookner wrote about the dark side of romance and life-changing effects that come with it. With her gloomy themes about depression and romance, she was ahead of her times where the perfect romance was ideal. Because of this, Brookner continues to be an influential writer of the 21st century. Anita Brookner was born on July 28, 1928 in Herne Hill, England to Polish immigrants. As an only child, Brookner attended James Allen’s Girls’ School, a private

Do you ever have a first impression of someone that is completely different from who they truly are? In Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita, the readers are able to delve into the mind of Humbert Humbert, a European man with pedophilic tendencies and a history of mental illnesses. When he travels to America, he meets his “true love”, a twelve year old girl, and there the readers are able to see the true nature of Humbert.The author uses the point of view of his novel and characterization to walk the

“Lolita” is a story about destructive passion of middle-aged literature professor Humbert towards 12-year-old girl Dolores Haze, who has gained nickname “Lolita” following Humbert’s example. The novel is an experiment and innovation, probably there were writers before who tried to overlook the context and consequences of a middle-aged man and young girl “love”, but “Lolita” is a book, that received so big and passionate response as no

Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita and Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho both show the stories of seemingly regular men based off of how they interact with people in their lives while in public view. The main characters from each novel are not normal functioning men of society. Humbert Humbert from Nabokov’s Lolita is a middle aged man who has an obsession with young girls around the age of twelve. Patrick Bateman from Ellis’s American Psycho is an incredibly narcissistic, egotistic, man who

The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The infamous story of Lolita by author Vladimir Nabokov has been a controversial one since its first release in America in November 1958. The publishing world and the average readers were not prepared or interested in reading a story about a middle-aged pedophile and his twelve year old stepdaughter. People were outraged by the book and were repulsed by it, but as the moth is drawn to the flame, so are curious minds and within one week, Lolita became a best-selling