LOLITA- Vladimir Nabokov
First edition printing published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1959. In very good condition. The story of the obsession of Humbert Humbert, a forty-something professor, for the twelve-year-old Lolita is an extraordinary love novel involving two explosive components: the «perverse» attraction to nymphets and incest. An itinerary through madness and death, leading to a very stylized violence, narrated, with both self-irony and unbridled lyricism, by Humbert Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acid and visionary portrait of the United States, of suburban horrors and of the plastic and motel culture. A dazzling display of talent and humor by a writer who confessed that he would have loved to film Lewis Carrol’s picnics.
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- Format: Hard Cover
- Year: 1959
- Pages: 392
- Primary Material: 100% Paper
- Edition: English
- REF: 2022-008
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Price: 500€