Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: A Casebook

by Ellen Pifer (Editor)

Midway through the last century, Lolita burst on the literary scene--a Russian exile's extraordinary gift to American letters and the New World. The scandal provoked by the novel's subject--the sexual passion of a middle-aged European for a twelve-year-old American girl--was quickly upstaged by the critical attention it received from readers, scholars, and critics around the world. This casebook gathers together an interview with Nabokov as well as nine critical essays about Lolita . The essays follow a progression focusing first on textual and thematic features and then proceeding to broader topics and cultural implications, including the novel's relations to other works of literature and art and the movies adapted from it.

Genres: Essays

224 pages, Paperback

First published November 21, 2002

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many insightful essays and a few part-essay, part-reviews of Lolita. John Haegert's is a standout and one of the best essays I've ever read.

[Kameranne]

i want to get new information about this novel because im gonna make an essay about it so i wanna see some phrases and important speeches.