LOLITA - Vladimir Nabokov 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 BOOK REVIEW [CC]

My *SPOILER FREE* review of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

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[seriela]

Thank you so much for explaining what Nabokov was attempting as a writer and how we can approach this novel as readers. I started reading it as a young mother with two daughters and couldn't continue. Decades later, I might try again.

[satorified]

Nabokov was the Mozart of novelists. I never knew a writer’s prose could be so beautiful till I read Lolita.

[traceymills]

I would put this book in my top 10 reading experiences. I remember finding the writing exquisite. After watching this I need to reread it. I read it long ago but remember feeling very conflicted on my feelings for Humbert. I would like to see it through the lens of the mother I am now. I have a 13 year old so am guessing I would find it a very different read!

[lindisi]

Thanks for you review. I just finished Lolita. I didn't grow up speaking or reading English, so it's hard for me to understand the whole situation in this novel. As a person from different language backgroud, I'm very sensitive to how the writer organizes those sentences, and I noticed that the writting style is changing from a very like poem style to a, I would say, easily understood for me style.

[browngirlreading]

I agree with everything you said. Lolita is like the scary movie where you don't see the monster but you're terrified the entire time. No Humbert is not reliable and the first person does allow for ambiguity. I was mesmerized by Nabakov's writing style. It's brilliant but so is the structure of the novel. It's been a very long time since I've read it. I'll need to add it to my reread list. Thanks for this excellent review Juan!

[marcobarros]

Definitely one of the best novels I have read. How I think that I read the story was as a cautionary tail. No one of the adults in the book would even suspect that the handsome, intelligent foreigner would actually be a terrifying predator. In the whole novel the only hero in the story was Dolores Haze who managed to escape him. One detail I remember is how H.H let people believe that he was the biological father. Such an absurd lie and still people believed him for his charms.
He mocks Charlotte Haze and criticizes the cosmopolitan culture of the united states. To me I believed that the writer tried to frame Dolores as a victim of the culture. Her mother did not love her as she always wanted a boy and H.H looked similar to a Hollywood actor that Dolores like. To me it seemed like the novel also blames the problem of pedophilia on us as a society for exposing children to sex and relationships in movies and magazines and not treating/persecuting pedophiles and predators. I'll leave here a quote from the foreword nabokov wrote as 'John Ray, Jr., Ph.D.'

" As a work of art, it transcends its expiatory aspects; and still more important to us than scientific significance and literary worth, is the ethical impact the book should have on the serious reader; for in the poignant personal study there lurks a general lesson; the wayward child, the egotistical mother, the panting maniac—these are not only vivid character in a unique story: they warn us of dangerous trends; they point out potent evils. “Lolita” should make all of us—parents, social workers, educators—apply ourselves with still greater vigilance and vision to the task of bringing up a better generation in a safer world."

[dashabc]

Absolutely : Lolita is not a love story at all . It is a tragedy, and his love for Lolita leads to murder and madness . It is a masterpiece

[mjuzumaki]

I just had a book club discussion of this book. One of my colleagues stab the text with a pen in rage 😅

Much love from Dominican Republic, hermano! ✌️

[justinreader]

Just finished Lolita and wow! The writing, the way Nabokov sets and tells a scene. I definitely saw his impressions of Dolores as highly skewed to make her out to be more sexual. Loved the structure as well, took me a while longer than most books of that length cause I was soaking in the language. Loved hearing your thoughts, always enjoy your videos

[geckoi]

I totally agree that the movies and the book covers are horribly misleading.
I do think though that the covers sold, as many, or more books than it's content deserves, "back in the days".
That said...i think the book is overestimated in controversy, but way overestimated in literary quality as well.
I don't agree is one of the best novels ever written...far from it. - on the same way i don't agree "Guernica" is one of the best paintings of the XXth century. - that not meaning they're deprived of quality.
The ColdWar and a 'lil' bit of political harness were in order, as well to overtone this book, on my opinion.

[DebMcDonald]

I agree with everything you said. Great job. I have read the book twice, seen the Kubrick movie as well as the remake and listened to the unabridged audiobook read by Jeremy Irons. It’s compelling and beautifully written but is, as you said, from one viewpoint only. To me Humbert is one aspect of Satan. He is sophisticated, handsome, well educated, and silver tongued but is a monster. Deb

Adorei ler este livro, li quando tinha 18 anos, para alguns é uma história chocante de pedofilia, para mim foi uma bonita história de amor com uma enorme diferença de idades.
Como sempre, adorei ouvir te, fiquei com vontade de ler mais deste autor russo.
Um beijinho Ruan e parabéns pelo excelente trabalho.
😗😗❤️