Subject:
'Lolita' — 50 years later ...
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"Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
Date:
Sat, 9 Aug 2008 08:49:49 -0400
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Catching up with 'Lolita' — 50 years later


If Dolores Haze and Humbert Humbert were alive today, she would be 73, he 98, and that 25-year age difference wouldn't mean a thing. ¶ But 50 years ago this month, when Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was first published in the United States, its tale of a 37-year-old man obsessed with a 12-year-old girl was such a scandal that its title character's name entered the language as shorthand for a seductive teenager. ¶ Poor Lo. Always misrepresented. ¶ Nabokov's Lolita is nothing like the bottle-blond, lollipop-licking sex kitten played by Sue Lyon in the 1962 film directed by Stanley Kubrick [. . .]

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