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Lolita
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bookshelves: to-read, americana, european-favourites, movie-seen-as-well
Sep 18, 2008
bookshelves: to-read, americana, european-favourites, movie-seen-as-well
I loved the movie with James Mason, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters and Sue Lyons.Had not been interested in the book until then.
What tipped me over the edge was this review I found in our local library Gazette by a novelist Debra Adelaide:
"My reading life has included various favourite books but my latest has to be a Nabakov's LOLITA, which I seem to return to every year.Recently I bought yet another copy of LOLITA, although i own several.But they are all annotated ,on loan, too frail and too shabby. And anyway the simple fact is you can never have too many copies of LOLITA. And a fresh one helps the illusion that you're reading it for the first time rather than all over again, which enhances the intimate - even erotic pleasure of the reading experience.
Not that LOLITA, despite its notorious reputation, is remotely erotic.Nor is it really about sex.Instead it is a deeply layered,ingenious portrayal of obsession,deception and self-deception, narrated by one of literature's finest creations, a character who is both egregious and beguiling. Satirical and wise,playful and erudite, a mystery, a romance,and a profoundcomment on middle-class,mid 20th century America,it is the perfect novel."
See now why I want to read LOLITA!!??one and all
What tipped me over the edge was this review I found in our local library Gazette by a novelist Debra Adelaide:
"My reading life has included various favourite books but my latest has to be a Nabakov's LOLITA, which I seem to return to every year.Recently I bought yet another copy of LOLITA, although i own several.But they are all annotated ,on loan, too frail and too shabby. And anyway the simple fact is you can never have too many copies of LOLITA. And a fresh one helps the illusion that you're reading it for the first time rather than all over again, which enhances the intimate - even erotic pleasure of the reading experience.
Not that LOLITA, despite its notorious reputation, is remotely erotic.Nor is it really about sex.Instead it is a deeply layered,ingenious portrayal of obsession,deception and self-deception, narrated by one of literature's finest creations, a character who is both egregious and beguiling. Satirical and wise,playful and erudite, a mystery, a romance,and a profoundcomment on middle-class,mid 20th century America,it is the perfect novel."
See now why I want to read LOLITA!!??one and all
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Reading Progress
September 18, 2008
– Shelved
February 17, 2010
– Shelved as:
americana
February 17, 2010
– Shelved as:
european-favourites
February 4, 2011
– Shelved as:
movie-seen-as-well
May 2, 2018
– Shelved as:
to-read