Lolita

In class we learn how to navigate around the university research database system. This tool would be needed for the assignment due at the end of the week. Lolita was a novel written in about how a man would suduce young adolescent girl. The name of a novel (1958) and its main character by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) about a precocious schoolgirl seduced by a middle-aged man, used to designate people and situations resembling those in the book(Oxford English Dictionary). In the 1950's, the book was rejected by various publishers in the U.S. because of the moral censorship to which the novel has been subjected. Although the book was full of controversy, eventually it was published in 1955 by Olympia Press ( Willams, Gerald). The article argues that the contemporary American view of human nature is immature. Similarities between Nabokov's novel "Lolita" and Amy Fisher, who was convicted of shooting the wife of her lover, Joey Buttafuoco, are discussed in detail. Nabokov's view of his pedophilic protagonist, Humbert, is presented as a mature view of the weakness of mankind (Derbyshire,John).According to Ellendea Proffer, the first author to write about Nabokov's Russian readership, anyone with a serious interest in literature had read at least two of Nabokov's novels, and "Lolita," was always one of them. But the older generation found Nabokov's books disgusting and called the plot of "Lolita," revolting( Shekhovtsova,O.).Her title, she insists, "is meant to conjure up an image of the author of writings viewed as obscene as a child playing with his excrement and calling it art." Despite the tremendous amount of historical information and original literary criticism included on each author and on the films made from the titles, to consider Ulysses or Lolita still as "dirt" is either too old-fashioned or too postmodern for this reviewer (Cox,Shelley). The novel has transformed into a book that is read nation wide to help others know about adultery and how it is wrong.