Lolita Book Reviews

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Immortal Enchantment. Don't let anyone tell you any differently; this is straight up, modern-day Shakespearean tragedy. Nabokov achieves his immortal enchantment with language that is rich, lyrical and, in most instances, beyond compare.

A quirky farce.... All pedo jokes aside, this is one of the best modernist novels. Overtly, a blatant attack on Freudianism (what constituted pop psychology in the 60's), this novel is as playful and exuberant as it is visceral and fetishistically offensive. The style and wordplay on display are Nabokov at his very best. Every page offers up its moments of cognitive dissonance as you are laughing at the style while simultaneously cringing at the subject matter. What really drew me in was the almost travelogue language of seeing America through the eyes of an educated, but mad European...not the America celebrated on the covers of magazines, but the one lurking in the cramped spaces of a motor lodge, the roadside diner, and the endless freeways that are meant to connect us, but sometimes only lead us to detour after detour...kinda like the subconscious, eh Vladimir?

INTELLIGENT. The subject matter is difficult to stomach. He is truly one distubered character. Nabokov’s writing is incredible. Not the greatest book, I have read, but very good, so it receives four stars. I wish the publisher, Vintage Books, would have translated the French sentences in the book, so we just had to tap on it to get the translation. I stopped looking up all the French sentences in the book, this needs to be done.

Beautifully written. Although the premise might seem disturbing, the way that this book is written is so beautiful that it is definitely worth the time.

:). amazing.

Lolita Forever. I am re-reading this novel and finding it even more enjoyable this time around as I discover new meanings and twists in the narrative. It's been thirty-five years.

This time around I am noticing that Nabokov's technique of narrative via memoir, diary, letters,and other scraps and fragments of remembrance signal a discomfort with traditional narratives and their all encompassing scope and focus, a focus that often seals up the story, characters, and the action into a translucent jar where no new elements or possibilities can be introduced or even imagined. Hamlet uwill still only find Yorick but a skeletal remembrance, another lost father figure; Anna will forever fling herself with each reading into the path of a locomotive and out of the hope of renewal. Nabokov wants Humbert Humbert and Lolita to not only double up and morph into the vagaries of composition, he wants them to evolve into a multidue of possibilities, ever seeking new tangential lives outside their first encounters with the text and its readings.

Nabokov's narrative is based on a Dostoyevskian mode, the unreliable narrator. A narrator whose diary is destroyed and one that he remembers verbatim, according to him. It is a story told from the confines of a mental hospital/prison inhabited for 56 days. The narrative style is best mirrored in the letter Charlotte leaves Humbert, a letter that he loses and yet offers up to the reader as an exact remembrance, one the he recalls verbatim. And yet this letter has the rhythm and sound of Humbert with its prompt to throw it into the "vortex of a toilet"(which he offhandedly admits to). Even the news of Humbert to Charlotte union in the society column of the Ramsdale Journal finds purposeful missteps. Her name is incorrectly rendered as Mrs. Hazer, Humbert claims his name as Mr. Edgar H. Humbert, and later he tells her that "society columns should contain a shimmer of errors", as do all narratives, shaped and formed with the care of a true story-teller. And thus deception and revelation work hand in hand to tell this story, reveal the truest impulses and foibles which haunt both the reader and its characters.

Nabokov lets his narrative loose among this chaos of form for he believes that narratives, true ones, materialize exactly in this manner; that our lives are but fragments that we piece together and negotiate alongside and in concordance with a multitude of other narratives.

Well Written. Not exactly what I was expecting since I never research a book before reading it. I found the book to be a well written story of a very taboo subject. Nabokov explores the subject through believable humans struggling and surrendering to the human condition and its consequences.

💖💖💖💖💖. This book is the light of my life and the fire of my loins

Leaves me speechless. I'm a huge Nabokov fan. Anything you chose to read by him reads like a symphony. His style, plots, and rhetoric are literally untouchable. He's a delight to get lost in.

Amazing. One of my favorite books . Amazing

Heart wrenching. Beautifully written, emotionally charged on an abominable topic of child abuse that makes your hair rise and soul shrink with sadness.

Yuck. At first I thought this book was well written, interesting, and so sad. But then it just dragged on and on and was thoroughly disgusting. I hated it.

Lolita. Truly unique writer’s voice. Capable of all kinds of intricate descriptions and observations. Lolita remains too much in the background. Her experience of the period with her “father,” and how this may have changed over time, is not developed.

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