Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Title: "Lolita"
Number of pages: 412
"Lilito, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-li-is: does the tip of the tongue are three steps to the palate, at the third tapping in the teeth. Lo.Li.To. "
These words, which is the beginning of the novel, seem to be its end. It is difficult to put the book without repeating syllables indented in my mind the word Lolita. A little bit of disbelief at the Lo, in amazement at the Li and lastly to the fascination with this. For it is not to succumb to the charm of the word, not to forget what was the medium for the heart and mind Humerta, whose greatest love, passion and desire was young Lolita.
Will romance between a girl twelve a forty man should not be something that rejects it stirs up, indignation and contempt? Yes, it should be. However, it is a person who merely with words that makes nothing is so obvious. That person is Vladimir Nabokov. How else to explain the grief and sympathy sent to a pedophile, and the complete neutrality of the girls used? I do not know why, but this is how invested your feelings for the main characters. It's a little scary, a little weird, but true.
reading the first sentence of the novel, the word directly to Lolita, we know that we will have to deal with love unique, as it later turned out, however, extremely difficult, pathological and prohibited. Humert, the main character and narrator of the novel admits that Lolita is not his first such love. However, it is the strongest, hottest and most overpowering. Extending his story, asks the readers saying, "Lord judge, gentlemen, the judges, knowing that each spend his sentence for him. However, no excuse for anything cites subsequent events of his life that led to the recognition, and then the tragic love sent to underage Lo. Descriptions, which seem to be able to scandalous, absolutely they are not. The fascination and desire, love and madness, all described in an incredibly dedicated, charming way that makes a man believe in feelings. Slowly, with a potential pedophile, is transformed in the eyes of the reader to the dedicated and sincere feeling guided by a lover. Lolita while, at the beginning zlękniona and defenseless, starts to use Humbert's love, the game starts with him. It leads a man to madness, and later to sacrifice and submission. The roles are somewhat reversed, and the situation gets complicated.
impossible to describe the impression it leaves behind the story of Lolita, how much soaks into the mind of the reader, how to produce conflicting emotions. It seems that Nabokov manipulates his readers as he pleases, he manages it, however great. Following the most beautiful words in which it was dressed up the story, somewhere slowly gonna lose sense of reality, decency and morality. Personally supporter Humberto, at some point I forgot about his age, I was only thinking about how unhappy he is man, how great is his love that was doomed to failure. Throughout its hopelessness, it is a story of beauty, language and subtle and balanced. Nothing is explicitly stated, descriptions leave gaps that can only fill our imagination. I have on us depends on whether we see the monster Humbercie and Lolita innocent child, or the opposite.
all those who have not read, highly recommended!
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