The 100 best novels : No 75 – Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) | Vladimir Nabokov | The Guardian
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Humbert, who is obsessed with “nymphets” (Nabokov’s coinage), girls on the edge of puberty, has been charged with the murder of Clare Quilty, a playwright.
The novel became a banned book, in a manner unthinkable today.
alors la censure de l’époque est impensable aujourd’hui, en même temps que jamais on ne pourrait publier ce livre aujourd’hui.
“We find ourselves the more shocked when we realise that, in the course of reading the novel, we have come virtually to condone the violation it presents… We have been seduced into conniving in the violation, because we have permitted our fantasies to accept what we know to be revolting.”
ah du latin !
It will never cease to horrify some readers and delight others. De gustibus non est disputandum .