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Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia.The protagonist is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He describes his obsession with a 12-year-old "nymphet", Dolores Haze, whom he kidnaps and sexually abuses after becoming her stepfather.
12 de oct. de 2022 · The Gift is the final and most important Russian novel (English translation, 1963) by Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977). The semi-autobiographical story of a young Russian émigré writer living in Berlin in the 1920s, The Gift was first serialized in the Paris journal Sovremennye zapiski (Notes from the Fatherland) between 1937 and 1938.
Throughout the novel, Nabokov explores themes of art, love, and identity, and the novel’s complex structure and intricate wordplay make it a true masterpiece of modernist literature. The Characters. The characters in Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Gift” are complex and multifaceted, each with their own unique personality and motivations.
About The Gift. Considered by many to be the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. • An interweaving of the effects of life and memory, tradition and heritage, upon art, the book tells of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished poet seeking fame in the phantasmic world of Berlin in the 1920s.
15 de oct. de 2023 · Nabokov described the writing of “Lolita” as “a painful birth, a difficult baby.”. A 1958 review of the novel in this newspaper called it “one of the funniest and one of the saddest ...
Nabokov wrote this novel as a tribute to his native language and is the last, and undeniably brilliant, of that period. It is a prime example of a supremely self-satisfied intellectual engorgement. Beautiful turns of phrase, rich and belligerent in its knowledge of the Russian Greats, it waves itself under the noses of anyone who might dare to understand it.
1 de oct. de 2011 · This early novel was written in 1935-37, mostly in Berlin. Despite Nabokov's brief disclaiming preface (not about himself, but about Russian literature), the book is about a Russian emigre in Berlin, learning about writing and the writer's world and it is perhaps closer to autobiography than any of the later novels. Young Fyodor, in Berlin, examines his first published book of verse (his side ...
