Lolita
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
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This was somehow one of the most uncomfortable, upsetting books Iâve ever read while also containing some of the most interesting, beautiful, fantastic prose I think Iâve ever seen; as a result, Iâm left wanting to remember quotes from it as much as I am trying to push the novelâs content from my head.
October is banned books month so we each chose a banned book and read it then gave a report to the group.
Nabokov forces the reader to sympathize with a monster. At no point did my disgust for humbert humbert falter, not even for a single phoneme.
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