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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Readers say *Lolita* is a beautifully written, daring, and flawlessly crafted novel, praised for Nabokov's masterful language and his skillful use of ...
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There is no reason why this time would need another review, its beautiful, flawless and daring. There seldom are authors who write in the point of view of the antagonist and Vladimir Nabakov might most arguably be the best of them. Its only a pity that he was denied the Nobel he so vehemently denied. Such elegantly crafted is the novel that you ride with story. You see with your mind the rise of desire, the agony, the road to redemption, the salvation, the fall, the rise and the final conviction. There seldom comes a story half so visual as this, hardly so perfect as this. Just beautiful is what I feel the story is.
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