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to my little girl he marries her with this new intimacy he starts referring to her as charlotte but often she is mrs humbert or my poor wife as she relaxes happily into her new role she becomes more attractive to him but only because he starts to see her resemblance to lolita with the help of a few drinks before bedtime humbert would manage to evoke the child while caressing the mother that s about as positive as his description of her gets charlotte matters only as a means to stay near lolita he begins to experiment with sleeping powders with the goal of drugging both mother and daughter so that he could fondle the latter through the night with perfect impunity then she informs him that she plans to send lolita straight to boarding school after summer camp while he tries to figure out how he can convince her to change her mind she finds the pervy diary he s been keeping about lolita which documents every interaction every glimpse every touch and contains a lot of unflattering comments about his wife she is not happy about it and is ready to throw him out he tries to convince her that she found notes for a novel he was writing he just inserted their names because they were handy he fixes her a drink hoping to calm her down when he returns to the room he receives a phone call and learns that his wife had been hit by a car as she crossed the street to mail some letters problem solved humbert s last relationship with a woman comes some time later after he is separated from lolita rita is a 30ish amiably drunk divorcee that he picks up in a bar they drive around together for two years and he refers to her as the sweetest simplest dumbest rita imaginable the most soothing the most comprehending companion that i ever had probably the nicest thing he s ever said about an adult female again we know little about this woman other than that she drives fast and her drunkenness sometimes gets her into awkward situations humbert notes gratefully that she saved me from the madhouse and her kisses kept me from mischief until he receives a letter from lolita then he kisses rita s brow as she sleeps tapes a goodbye note to her navel and leaves her forever and of course there s lolita also known as dolores lo lola dolly the book is named after her so we might expect to find out a lot about her her thoughts her dreams her disappointments her plans her fears her relationships like we do with rebecca emma anna karinina carrie or coraline but what do we know about lolita her hygiene is not great she chews gum she can be cranky sarcastic cruel and vulgar and has annoying taste in food and music but she is 13 and she looks like annabel and that s enough the time we spend with lolita seeing her through humbert s eyes feels more like stalking and then holding her captive than it feels like getting to know her his relationship with her is all about obsession and possession and that overshadows everything about her what drives me insane is the twofold nature of this nymphet of every nymphet perhaps this mixture in my lolita of tender dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity all this gets mixed up with the exquisite stainless tenderness seeping through the musk and the mud through the dirt and the death and what is most singular is that she this lolita my lolita has individualized the writer s ancient lust so that above and over everything there is lolita and yet once he is constantly in her company he makes it clear that the personality and habits of a 13 year old are not quite as irresistable as the blossoming loveliness a combination of naïveté and deception of charm and vulgarity of blue sulks and rosy mirth lolita when she chose could be a most exasperating brat i was not really quite prepared for her fits of disorganized boredom intense and vehement griping her sprawling droopy dopey eyed style mentally i found her to be a disgustingly conventional little girl as we travel along with the two of them however we begin to suspect there is more to lolita that she is up to something behind the scenes she may not be able to control her situation but she learns how to take advantage of opportunities she puts her adolescent moodiness and boredom to great use withholding kisses and embraces but promising greater shows of affection in exchange for special trips ice cream sundaes and cash she knows humbert s weaknesses and how to distract him when he gets suspicious she is patient and seems to be watching and waiting hopefully for a way out riding in cars with lolita i m not sure whether a lot happens in this book or if nothing much happens besides obsessing over sex with a minor but there is a lot of driving as soon as humbert gets lolita to himself they hit the road at first he s trying to distract her while he figures out when to tell her that her mother is dead and once he starts having sex with her there s the whole illegality thing so it s best to keep moving and not spend too much time with anyone who actually knows them nothing wrong with a father and young daughter sharing a motel room right they spend a year driving in a big circle around the us stopping at national parks and roadside attractions eating at roadside diners sometimes lolita meets a few kids in the towns where they stay plays a bit of tennis goes to a roller rink but mostly she is with humbert just driving from town to town from state to state and as they travel he reminds her to keep quiet about their relationship because if he goes to prison she will have nowhere to go and will likely end up in reform school eventually life on the road gets too expensive so they return to new england to settle down and with a rare lapse in ecstatic declarations about his darling humbert gives us a fleeting glimpse at the truth about this runaway roadtrip we had been everywhere we had really seen nothing and i catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely trustful dreamy enormous country that by then in retrospect was no more to us than a collection of dog eared maps ruined tour books old tires and her sobs in the night every night every night the moment i feigned sleep denouement since the plot of this story mainly involves holding onto and sexually abusing a young girl whether driving around the country or staying at home and since referring to plot elements such as rising action or climax is simply too gross to think about for this story let s focus instead on how everything resolves or perhaps just falls apart our travelers settle into a new home and lolita goes to school before long they begin to argue humbert is jealous of everyone she spends time with but he agrees that she can participate in the school play and have limited interactions with friends eventually he can t stand his lack of control over her and threatens to take her out of school surprisingly she agrees and asks if they can go back on the road but she wants to plan their itinerary humbert readily agrees desperate to have her to himself again but from the start he is suspicious any time she is out of his sight and he becomes convinced that someone is following them after a short time on the road lolita becomes ill and is hospitalized for a couple of weeks humbert can barely cope it s the first time in two years that he s been separated from her when he goes to pick her up he finds she checked out the day before he is cheerfully informed that her uncle called for her paid her bill in cash and took her to grandpa s ranch now humbert knows they had been followed and he devotes himself to finding and killing the man who took his lolita retracing their travel route he finds clues but no real evidence as to who he was or where he had taken her after more than two years he receives a letter lolita is married and pregnant and needs money so she writes to her dad for help he goes to her immediately lolita now known as dolly schiller admits that she arranged for her escape from humbert with the help of clare quilty the author of the play she had acted in at school another middle aged man who prefers young girls she was crazy about him but he dumped her after she refused to be in his pornographic films she met a nice young guy named dick and married him but they don t have much money and she hoped good old dad could help them out he gives them 4 000 no strings attached he had after all taken the money from the sale of her mother s house but humbert asks her to come with him to pick up where they left off she s not interested at all in her washed out gray eyes strangely spectacled our poor romance was for a moment reflected pondered upon and dismissed like a dull party like a rainy picnic to which only the dullest bores had come like a humdrum exercise like a bit of dry mud caking her childhood time for murder humbert finds clare quilty at home hosting a party with lots of drunk and or high guests including quilty himself humbert finds him in his room and shoots him repeatedly and ineptly in a gruesome darkly comic fashion with both of them talking the entire time then humbert walks downstairs tells the party guests he killed quilty and they laugh it off as a joke he gets in his car and drives away slowly once the murder is discovered the police have little problem finding him and arresting him he writes this book while in prison awaiting trial with instructions that it not be published till after lolita is dead the end but here s where we get back to the recommendation to reread the prologue turns out that the prologue is also the epilogue where we learn lolita s fate before we even meet her when reading through the list of real people in the story we see this mrs richard f schiller died in childbirth giving birth to a stillborn girl on christmas day 1952 just a month after humbert had died of a heart attack why is lolita a classic i asked myself this question pretty much through the entire book the writing style is ornate extravagant filled with esoteric historical and literary allusions with lots of untranslated french thrown in seemingly just to annoy me it was exhausting to read and it s hard to pin down the genre looking back on it lolita strikes me as a satirical tragicomic road trip i love satire i appreciate dark comedy road trips are fun even though i was annoyed by the purple prose i do appreciate deliberate specific word choices and carefully constructed phrases still i resented the fact that readers made it a best seller right when i was born so that i had to start my project by reading it i refused to be amused when it was comical i couldn t settle in and enjoy the ride like i do with most satire i was traveling with a pedophile surrounded by his thoughts and feelings and i didn t like it i just wanted to get away but i couldn t leave lolita i had to stick it out to the end the prospect of going back and thinking about the book enough to review it was holding me back until i listened to the lolita episode of the podcast save me from my shelf where co host dr abby boucher offered the following advice hating a book is a lot more useful in terms of critical analysis because you having that distance from it allows you to coldly analyze what you don t like what doesn t work much more so than if you like a book so with permission to be coldly analytical i was ready to express my intense dislike for this book but the more i distanced myself from it the more i realized i couldn t dismiss it i couldn t not think of it as a classic as much as it wore me out to read through it all i recognized that the florid style was completely deliberate necessary even that choosing to write in such a way about a pedophile is important to the story constantly reminds us that he is not trustworthy that this is not intended for titillation neither for sexual nor true crime psychology type thrills i also think maybe the language protects the reader a bit from what s going on creates some distance and thanks to a friendly comment on this post thanks mark i realize that i may have disliked the writing style because it was skillfully and beautifully done maybe i felt betrayed by the author couldn t bear to admire anything related to this subject matter going back through the book i started seeing lolita not just as a victim but as a survivor even if she does die in the end i came to the conclusion that it was the only way to tell this particular story i also think it could be read as being about something more than just pedophilia it could be any passion or obsession that makes us not care about anything else makes us feel justified in using people with no consideration for anything but our own desires but i won t take my musings any farther than that since nabokov says the book has no moral and that novels shouldn t be used to teach lessons why was lolita a best seller in 1958 fine i ve decided it s worth reading but why was it a best seller in october of 1958 at first i thought it had a lot to do with the fact that it had been banned for a couple of years and people were curious wanted to show they could handle it maybe they thought it would be steamy and sexy like peyton place which had also been banned in 1956 and then spent about half of 1957 at the top of the best seller list my guess is lolita had too much talk and not enough action for it to stay at the top of the list for that long i doubt if surviving a banning is enough to keep a book at the top of the best seller list for very long but i think it may possibly give it a nudge toward the classic zone a banned book is always going to have that suggestion of pizzazz lolita came to the us on the brink of the swinging 60s and folks may have been ready to give it a chance because they were increasingly open to acknowledging that sex happens and it s ok playboy hit the shelves in 1953 the kinsey reports in 1948 and 1953 offered a scholarly look at sexual behavior around the time lolita was published in the us liz taylor was lounging in her slip in cat on a hot tin roof talking as freely about homosexuality as the censors would allow elvis was getting his pelvis censored on ed sullivan but everyone knew what it was doing nabokov s nationality may have added a bit of mystique to the idea of reading lolita the cold war had been going on for more than a decade and people may have been intrigued by a russian author who had escaped not only the russian revolution but also the nazis and found safety in the usa and i found a couple of articles from 1958 that indicate americans were a bit curious about russia and its people the issue of life magazine published the day i was born has an article about an elementary school in utah offering russian language lessons and the only complaint from parents was that the class filled up too quickly for their kids to get in i also found an indiana university press article that mentions an american soviet cultural exchange agreement in 1958 which set up a student exchange for 17 soviet and 22 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