Synopses & Reviews
Lolita, la mas famosa y controversial novela de Vladimir Nabokov, cuenta la historia de la obsesion devoradora del cuarenton Humbert Humbert por la ninfula Dolores Haze. Ternura y fascinacion --ademas de tristeza y un humor mordaz-- llenan sus paginas pero es, por encima de todo, una meditacion sobre el amor--el amor como abuso y alucinacion, locura y transformacion.
Synopsis
'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, Observer
Poet 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