With one of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov`s Lolita is a strange, troubling love story told by the one of the most unreliable narrators in literature. This Penguin Modern Classics edition
Includes:: an afterword by Craig Raine. Poet & pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita & seeks to possess her, first carnally & then artistically, out of love, `to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets`. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert`s seduction is one of many
Dimensions in Nabokov`s dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour & rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason & Peter Sellers, & again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons & Melanie Griffith, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock & awe. ” Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine... You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent.” (Martin Amis, Observer).