Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Prohibited from entering the UK in its time of distribution, 1955, Vladimir Nabokov’s amazingly skilful and enduringly questionable work of fiction acquaints us with artistic teacher and self-admitted hebephile Humbert, the maybe inconsistent storyteller of the novel. He weds widow Charlotte Haze just to gain admittance to her little girl, 12-year-old Dolores, nicknamed Lo by her mom. Shrouding his maltreatment in the suggestive language of admired love doesn’t diminish Humbert’s wrongdoings.
