What story is Lolita telling?

The novel describes the first love between Heng humbert, a middle-aged man who immigrated from France to the United States, and Annabel, a girl of 14 years old. Finally, Annabel died of typhoid fever, creating a pedophile in humbert. He defined "leprechaun" as "nine to fourteen years old". Humbert was first abandoned by a rich widow, and later fell in love with the landlord Charlotte Hai Zi 12-year-old daughter Lolita, calling her a leprechaun.

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Creation background

Before Nabokov came to the United States, the seeds of Lolita had sprouted, but it was the United States and the American continent that fully realized this theme. American life and experience provide Lolita with geographical background, local and contemporary characters, the development of the second part of the novel and a completely different ending.

American real life also provides a living case for Nabokov to describe Lolita's bold move to live with an adult man. In this process, Nabokov paid special attention to the news reports of accidents, sexual crimes and murders, and also recorded the general situation of some cases, and even introduced Lolita almost intact.

works appreciation

As a world-recognized fantasy novel, Lolita successfully reaches the core of human mind by borrowing the shell of erotic novels, depicting piety, conflict and failure when people meet the world, and the sadness contained in it reflects the conscience of a serious writer. Therefore, Lolita is not so much a book of criticism as a book of sympathy.

Nabokov weaves the truth of life with fantastic plots through the confusing words of illusory beauty, which not only makes people intoxicated with beauty, but also urges people to further think about the long-standing survival dilemma of mankind.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Lolita