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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.
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Lolita
2019-09, Editorial Anagrama S.A.
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1986-07, Berkley Books
mass market paperback
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1968-03, Berkley Publishing Corporation
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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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