An edition of Lolita (1955)

Lolita

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An edition of Lolita (1955)

Lolita

Primera ediciån en «Compactos 50» de la nueva traducciån
  • 3.95 ·
  • 81 Ratings
  • 2128 Want to read
  • 140 Currently reading
  • 142 Have read

Lolita es sin duda una de las novelas más importantes del siglo XX, no solo por su sofisticación literaria, sino también por las controversias que ha generado desde su publicación hasta hoy. Narrada en primera persona por un profesor cuarentón enamorado de niñas púberes a las que denomina “nínfulas”, la novela presenta la historia de la caída en los infiernos del héroe y de su víctima, la jovencísima Dolores. Nabokov empuja el lenguaje hasta el límite mismo de la moral y escribe allí, frente al abismo, ni un paso más allá ni un paso más acá. La escritura exuberante e increíblemente precisa de Nabokov consigue dibujar de manera inigualable el retrato de las contradicciones del deseo, al mismo tiempo que bosqueja un paisaje de América transformada en geografía de la predación.

Escrita en inglés en 1955, fue considerada pornográfica y escandalosa, y rechazada por todos los editores americanos. Publicada finalmente en Francia por el editor de libros eróticos Maurice Girodias, no pudo ser distribuida libremente hasta 1959. Tras el fin de la censura, Lolita se convierte en un clásico de la literatura mundial. En tiempos de MeToo y más allá de hipócritas prohibiciones puritanas, Lolita puede leerse hoy como una obra maestra y el retrato de una sociedad llena de secretos inconfesables. Extraordinaria, terrorífica, insuperable.
--back cover

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Language
Spanish
Pages
392

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Lolita
2019-09, Editorial Anagrama S.A.
Paperback in Spanish - Primera ediciån en «Compactos 50» de la nueva traducciån
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Lolita
1993, Orion
in English - promotional edition
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Lolita
1986-07, Berkley Books
mass market paperback in English - Berkley edition, thirty-fifth printing
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Lolita
1979, Guild Publishing
hardcover in English
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Lolita
1979, Guild Publishing
hardcover in English
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Lolita
1968-03, Berkley Publishing Corporation
mass market paperback in English - Berkley Medalion 2nd, second printing
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Lolita
1960-01, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
hardcover in Italian - XII
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Lolita
1960-10, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
hardcover in English - Fourth impression
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Lolita
1959-12, Crest Giant
mass market paperback in English - First Crest printing
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Lolita
1958, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Putnam
hardcover in English - Eighth impression
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Lolita
1958, G. P. Putnam's Sons
hardcover in English - Eleventh impression

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Edition Notes

Published in
Barcelona
Copyright Date
2019
Translation Of
Lolita
Translated From
English

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
389p.
Number of pages
392

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL29832838M
ISBN 10
8433902687
ISBN 13
9788433902689
OCLC/WorldCat
1142133339
Goodreads
59715852

Work Description

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he sexually molests after he becomes her stepfather. "Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores. The novel was originally written in English and first published in Paris in 1955 by Olympia Press. Later it was translated into Russian by Nabokov himself and published in New York City in 1967 by Phaedra Publishers.



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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
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