Lolita

 Pub in 1955 by Russian American author vladimir Nabokov.

 The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator,
a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed
with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he
becomes her stepfather. "Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores. The novel was
originally written in English and later is translated in Russian.
 Fictional foreword is written by john ford.
 The details of a memoir entitled The Confession of a White Widowed Male written by a
literary scholar of mixed European ethnicity who died recently in an American jail of
heart disease.
 Roy received the manuscript from Humpert’s lawyer C C Clark.
 The memoir's author uses the pseudonym Humbert Humbert to refer to
himself in the manuscript.
 Characters name
 Humpert, the author and the narrator, works for university writing a book on
French literature.
 Annabel, first lover, 12 yrs deid in typhus
 Monique, a prostitute, nymph, but it is scammed by madame.
 Veleria, humpert’s wife, eloped with taxi driver maximovich,
 Charlotte, married humpert, Lolita’s mother, died by swerving car
 Doleres (Lolita), 12 year girl, sexually molested by humpert, died in still
born girl
 Mona dahl, lolita’s friend in school, Lolita told everything to her.
 Clare quilty, playwright in school, took her from the hospital, shot by
humpert, THE ENCHANTED HUNTERS, the play’s name, lover of Lolita.
 Richard schiller,or dick schiller, a mining engineer,nothing no about lolita’s
past, lolita’s husband
 Rita, alcoholic woman, after lolita
 Erotic novel,novel of manners
 Nymphs, pedephilia, sexual attraction towards the adult 9-14 yrs age.
 The theme of hebephilia was already touched on by Nabokov in his short story "A
Nursery Tale"
 The gift, the third chapter of the novel was similar to Lolita
 Nabokov wrote to Edmund Wilson: "I am writing ... a short novel about a man who liked
little girls—and it's going to be called The Kingdom by the Sea".[52] The work expanded
 into Lolita during the next eight years. Nabokov used the title A Kingdom by the Sea in
his 1974 pseudo-autobiographical novel Look at the Harlequins!

 Many are references to Humbert's own favorite poet, Edgar Allan Poe.
 Humbert Humbert's first love, Annabel Leigh, is named after the "maiden" in the poem
"Annabel Lee" by Poe; this poem is alluded to many times in the novel, and its lines are
borrowed to describe Humbert's love. A passage in chapter 11 reuses verbatim Poe's
phrase ...by the side of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride.
 Doppelganger means same physique (between clare and humpert)
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