Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.
Publication Year: 1955
Decided to give the book another go after listening to Jamie Loftus’ podcast, I had read the book as a teenager deep in my tumblr phase, and had come away confused: why didn’t I like the narrator, why didn’t I find it very romantic or erotic? Reader, I was never supposed to. Understanding Delores Hayes as a fully grown adult is a very different experience, and I think this is like many other pieces of media that are brilliant, but a once only experience (like Grave of the Fireflies, maybe)
2ok realshit. I read kodomo no jikan years ago and am only realizing now how much inspo that manga took from lolita. Feels like an inside joke
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