Andre’s Reviews > Lolita > Status Update

An intensely sophisticated novel, highly layered, employing an unreliable narrator, frame story, a heavily erudite and colorful, surreal style loaded with alliteration, wordplay, crossing of languages, and reference to the reader. Humbert Humbert's affair with the sultry 12 year old Dolores Haze (Lolita) parries simple analysis, as this seems not like a story of purity succumbing to depravity. No: more is at work.