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Lolita
novel by Nabokov
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Lolita,novel byVladimir Nabokov, published in 1955 in France. Upon its American publication in 1958,Lolita created a cultural and literary sensation.
The novel is presented as the posthumously published memoirs of its antihero,Humbert Humbert. A Europeanintellectual and pedophile, Humbert lusts obsessively after 12-year-old nymphet Lolita (real name, Dolores Haze), who becomes his willing inamorata. The work examines love in the light of lechery.