Reviewed by Tony Baer: VLADIMIR NABOKOV – Lolita.

Reviewed by Tony Baer: VLADIMIR NABOKOV – Lolita. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to its being first published in Paris, France, in 1955 by Olympia Press. [Source: Wikipedia.] Reprinted many times. Could be called: ‘The Pedophile with the Broken Heart’. Humbert Humbert, our antihero (i think that’s what you call it when you’re embarrassed to call the lead character the protagonist), is a pedophile. He blames it on the fact that when he was 13, he fell in love with 12 year old Annabel. They unsuccessfully attempted to consummate their love on the beach by his father’s hotel. Then she was gone forever. Ever since, he’s been obsessed with nymphettes. Nymphettes being girls between the ages of 9-14, still children, but with an awakening sense of their emerging sexual power. Humbert Humbert informs us that not all 9-14 year old girls are nymphettes. Only a select few, but for the connoisseur, they are a coveted…

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