Знаменитый роман Набокова был написан первоначально на английском языке. Книга адресуется широкому кругу почитателей таланта Владимира Набокова, а также студентам- филологам и специалистам английского языка.

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? ...Or is he all of these?

When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist, Humbert Humbert, and his two principal interlocutors, the pre-pubescent Lolita, and the magnificently weird playwright, Mr Clare Quilty. But Nabokov’s wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century’s classic novels not to the controversy its material aroused, but to the fact that its author used that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?

Ainsi donc, aucun de nous deux n'est en vie au moment ou le lecteur ouvre ce livre. Mais tant que le sang continue de battre dans cette main qui tient la plume, tu appartiens autant que moi a la bienheureuse matiere, et je puis encore t'interpeller d'ici jusqu'en Alaska. Sois fidele a ton Dick. Ne laisse aucun autre type te toucher. N'adresse pas la parole aux inconnus. J'espere que tu aimeras ton bebe. J'espere que ce sera un garcon. J'espere que ton mari d'operette te traitera toujours bien, parce que autrement mon spectre viendra s'en prendre a lui, comme une fumee noire, comme un colosse dement, pour le dechiqueter jusqu'au moindre nerf. Et ne prends pas C.Q. en pitie. Il fallait choisir entre lui et H.H., et il etait indispensable que H.H. survive au moins quelques mois de plus pour te faire vivre a jamais dans l'esprit des generations futures. Je pense aux aurochs et aux anges, au secret des pigments immuables, aux sonnets prophetiques, au refuge de l'art. Telle est la seule immortalite que toi et moi puissions partager, ma Lolita.

'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.' Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?

"Dopo trentasei anni rileggo Lolita di Vladimir Nabokov, che ora Adelphi ripresenta... Trentasei anni sono moltissimi per un libro. Ma Lolita ha, come allora, un'abbagliante grandezza. Che respiro. Che forza romanzesca. Che potere verbale. Che scintillante alterigia. Che gioco sovrano. Come accade sempre ai grandi libri, Lolita si e spostato nel mio ricordo. Non mi ero accorto che possedesse una cosi straordinaria suggestione mitica". (Pietro Citati)

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert's seduction 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 starring James Mason and Peter Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith, Lolita has lost none of its power to shock and awe.

Der vielumstrittene, langst zu Weltruhm gelangte und zweifach verfilmte Roman einer tragischen Passion: Ein Vierzigjahriger verfallt dem grazilen Zauber einer kindlichen Nymphe und erfahrt die Liebe als absolute Macht uber Leben und Tod.

Гумберт Гумберт — привередливый профессор колледжа средних лет. Еще ему нравятся маленькие девочки. И не более, чем Лолита, ради обладания которой он сделает все. Влюбленный он или безумец, красноречивый поэт или извращенец, измученная душа или чудовище, или он все это!Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane, a silver-tongued poet or a pervert, a tortured soul or a monster or is he all of these!

When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and considerably expanded version of the 1970 edition, does full justice to the textual riches of Lolita, illuminating the elaborate verbal textures and showing how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. Alfred Appel, Jr. also provides fresh observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal patternings and a delightful biographical vignette of Nabokov. The annotations themselves were prepared in consultation with Nabokov while newly identified allusions were confirmed by him during the final years of his life.

The Original of Laura is Vladimir Nabokov's final, incredible unfinished novel in fragments. Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora. But in a novel, a 'maddening masterpiece' documenting her infidelities, written by one of her lovers and given to the doctor, she appears as My Laura. Dishonoured, Wild still finds pleasure in life, by indulging in self-annihilation, beginning with the removal of his toes. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers. Dmitri Nabokov was Vladimir Nabokov's son.

Vladimir Nabokov est ne en 1899 a Saint-Petersbourg, dans une famille aristocratique et liberale. Exile en 1919, il vecut d'abord a Cambridge, ou il acheva ses etudes, puis en Allemagne et en France, qu'il quitta en 1940 pour s'installer aux Etats-Unis. Il y enseigna pendant pres de vingt ans, a Wellesley College (1941-1948) et a Cornell University (1948-1958). Apres l'enorme succes de Lolita, il se retira a Montreux, en Suisse, ou il mourut en 1977.

Сумка — цвет: НАТУРАЛЬНЫЙ. And the rest is rust and stardust Vladimir Nabokov

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