Bibliographic title
"Lingerie, Lollipops, Lipsticks": Inventing the Perfect Lolita Cover
Periodical or collection
Nabokov Online Journal
Periodical issue
v. 4
Publication year
Th essay analyzes the results of an artistic competition (which Bertram himself has announced and held) for the best cover of Nabokov’s novel, Lolita. A few selections out of over a hundred and fifty submissions have been awarded with monetary prizes. Bertram suggests that certain themes and recurrent images emerge in the public perception of this popular and controversial novel.