'Lolita is comedy,subversive yet divine'Martin Amis,ObserverPoet and pervert,Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her,first carnally and then artistically,'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane A tortured soul or a monster Humbert Humbert's fixation is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece,which is suffused with a savage humour and rich,elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962,and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne,Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.'There's no funnier monster in literature than poor,doomed Humbert Humbert'Independent
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141182537Number of pages: 336Weight: 234 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
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He did us all an honour by electing to use,and transform,our language.Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears.There's no funnier monster in modern literature than poor,doomed Humbert Humbert.
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