Lolita

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Review #1

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In the 1940s, the world was shocked by the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. In the 1950s, the world received another shock by the publication of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita. After it was published in France in 1955, it was banned there at the end of 1956, at least for awhile. It wasn’t until 1958 that it was published in the United States. Despite the novel being available without restriction today, its controversy continues. It is almost universally accepted that Humbert Humbert is a pedophile and a rapist. His confession, in the form of this book, does not engender forgiveness. However, as people decry the villainy of Humbert Humbert, they often say “but isn’t it so well written?” People feel morally superior as they read the book and express their enjoyment of it in that guilt-free way.

In the description of Lolita in a list of Vladimir Nabokov books at the end of the Kindle version of the Vintage International 50th Anniversary Edition of the novel, it notes that Lolita is the story of “Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.” I once read that certain behavior can only be forbidden when that behavior exists. We don’t forbid behavior that never happens. I believe that the desire for nymphets, as defined in the book, exists in many people. They feel the obsessive and devouring passion described in the book. The difference between them and Humbert Humbert is that, for them, the angel on one shoulder is stronger than the devil on the other shoulder. Desire and fear exist together in many people. In the novel Lolita, desire overcomes fear.

Humbert wants Lolita to have the same intense love for him as he has for her. The tragedy in the book comes from her response to his advances. Is it possible for a young girl to have intense love for an older man? Is a story believable if the older man is more gradual in his actions than Humbert Humbert was and the young girl responds as he wishes she would? There are such books, but they are read more as fantasies than as realistic stories. According to Humbert, his first interaction in bed with Lolita was initiated by her. How the affair continued was the point of contention. Hence the tragedy.

I agree with those who say that Lolita is well written. It is an outstanding book. Lolita goes way beyond the descriptive nature that you expect in a novel. I agree with those who praise “the beauty of its language and the depth of its characterization.” Unlike The Enchanter, sometimes called the precursor to Lolita, which Vladimir Nabokov wrote in Russian and Dmitri Nabokov translated to English, the novel Lolita was written by Vladimir Nabokov in English. His knowledge of English was more advanced than mine, despite it being my native language and Russian being his native language. I had to look up words in the dictionary more often than I care to admit. Also, he has Humbert Humbert frequently express himself in French. Sometimes, I sought translations on the Internet, but more often I just skipped over the foreign phrases and sentences. Perhaps in a year or two, I will read The Annotated Lolita edition of the book, with the hope that it includes French-to-English translations as well as relevant information about word play and other aspects of Nabokov’s writing.

Review #2

Lolita audiobook Series Shifters Unbound

If I could give this a 3.5 star I would. It was a controversial book for its time , but full of too much fluff. I kept looking and thinking how am I only 50% through this book? Page after page of little to nothing in regards to their traveling or the plays they attended.. Such drivel!! I did however like how he portrayed the characters and the description of their emotions. Lola wasn’t given much of a voice , but given her feelings as told by an old disgusting man.

Review #3

Audiobook Lolita by Cris Dukehart

One of the blurbs on the back of the book: “The only convincing love story of our century.” – Vanity Fair. I see similar comments sprinkled elsewhere, including many in the customer reviews. Being unable to understand this view, I ask for someone who concurs with it, what is your definition of love? When I read the book, I see an intense sexual obsession. I see an intensely selfish man with no real regard for the object of his obsession (the child). I could cite strong supportive evidence of this, but I will avoid spoilers.

My blurb on the back would be somewhat different: “A sad story, but a fascinating journey through the mind of a pedophile.” I cannot disagree with any of the praise for Nabokov’s authorial skills. It is a great read. I recommend a dictionary and access to google translate (unless you speak French).

Review #4

Audio Lolita narrated by Cris Dukehart

After reading The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman I wanted to read the real Lolita book to which she was referring while writing about the true crime case of Sally Horner’s abduction, kidnapping, rapes, and eventual death. I found Part One of this novel to be very long-winded and over-described, written more like literary fiction than fiction. However it gives the reader a glimpse into what psychological thrillers would later become, especially so as it is narrated by the baddie whose subjective view could be considered at times vastly unreliable as we never get to hear from Delores Haze herself. Part Two however seemed to drag on about meaningless repetitive day-to-day living, and the ending though good felt abrupt and his motivation for what he does not apparent. It’s almost as if the author tried to write a crime thriller at the end. This I believe is because it took him so long to write that the ending was written in an era where Gaslight-esque films turned more procedural, and us authors do write to the times we are in. Although people condemn this book for writing about paedophilia, there is no graphic or gratuitous explanations of such activities and I think that perhaps the reason the first half worked better than the second was the obvious suspense the author uses as Humbert as he tells the reader what he wants to do, what he intends to do, and how he plans to execute it. Humbert faces many obstacles and conflicts to complete his plans and when they are thwarted he becomes a killer. It’s a work of pure genius. However a couple of things I noticed that occurred in two books written by two authors who’d committed the real crimes for which they were writing stood out for me in this book too. I’m not saying Nabokov was a closet paedo, but his character has illnesses when he does which land him in hospital, the same background (emigrating from Russia, to Paris then to the US) and this stuck out to me as if he was trying to tell the reader his character was based loosely on him. I also worried about his extremely close observation on the sizes of girls hips and how their ‘buds’ looked. How would he know this if he was not once a girl? And if he’d just added those details about himself in the book wouldn’t he have done so in his first or second publications? Not his tenth? It’s usually by the third that an author has spewed their guts on their own familial histories and personal experiences and they start to find their voice and are able to leave their own issues aside in order to write exclusively in their narrators point of view, rather than their own. I think a lot of readers misinterpret what this book is about. it’s obvious Delores does not seduce him. He tells the reader she did, which is exactly what sexual offenders do, so I think it’s safe to say this is certainly not a love story, a romance between a twelve year old girl and a man who is in a position of authority. Anyone who thinks it is should reread it or get counselling.

Review #5

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I’m working my way through a great swath of classic literature and given the huge attention this book has received I thought I’d include it while I was going through the Russian novelists.

As it happened though, either this novel wasn’t nearly as profound as academics seem to consider it to be, or I’m dumber than I thought I was, because I saw nothing particularly significant or profound in it. Nabokov’s command of English is precise, well embellished and pleasing to read, (impressively so, given his native Russian tongue), but I don’t feel as though I gained anything from having read Lolita.

Perhaps it just doesn’t suit my incentives for reading, and that’s fine. If you read literature in an attempt to draw ideas from the texts then- as far as I can tell- this isn’t worth your time. On the other hand, if you are more emotionally malleable and enjoy immersing yourself in elaborate descriptions and ‘feeling’ your way through a narrative along with the characters, I think you’d likely get a lot more from it than I did. It ended up being a chore for me.

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