The story of the obsession of Humbert Humbert, a forty-something professor, with the twelve-year-old Lolita is an extraordinary love novel in which two explosive components intervene: the "perverse" attraction for nymphets and incest. An itinerary through madness and death, which leads to a highly stylized violence, narrated, at the same time with self-irony and unbridled lyricism, by Humbert Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acidic and visionary portrait of the United States, of suburban horrors and of plastic and motel culture. In short, a dazzling display of talent and humor by a writer who confessed that he would have loved to film Lewis Carrol's picnics.
«Among the most subtle and complex literary creations of our time. Which does not mean, by the way, that it is not a provocative book” (Mario Vargas Llosa).
"No lover has thought of his beloved with such tenderness...read more
