Lolita

About the book

Humbert Humbert is an academic who feels an intense attraction to young girls he calls nymphets. He moves into a boarding house and targets Dolores Haze, his landlady’s twelve-year-old daughter. To remain near the child, Humbert marries the mother, Charlotte. After Charlotte dies in an accident, Humbert takes Dolores on a long road trip across the United States. He uses his status as her legal guardian to control her, documenting their movements and his own justifications in a dense, linguistic diary that details his predatory behavior.

This book serves readers interested in the mechanics of unreliable narration and intricate wordplay. It attracts those studying how aesthetic prose can be used to mask moral depravity and manipulation. The reader walks away with an understanding of how a narrator constructs a self-serving reality to excuse abuse. It provides a technical look at the conflict between artistic beauty and the reality of a crime, forcing an analysis of whether sophisticated language can justify a narrator's actions.

Details

Published

1777

Publisher

Polirom

ISBN

9789734619009

Language

EN