Lolita
Dieses ruhm- und skandalumwitterte Buch zählt zu den wenigen großen Liebesromanen der modernen Weltliteratur. Es ist die Geschichte einer unseligen Leidenschaft, geschrieben von einem magistralen Erzähler, der das Ungeheuerliche mit dem Zarten, das Kühne mit dem Diskreten zu verbinden weiß. Aus...
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Dieses ruhm- und skandalumwitterte Buch zählt zu den wenigen großen Liebesromanen der modernen Weltliteratur. Es ist die Geschichte einer unseligen Leidenschaft, geschrieben von einem magistralen Erzähler, der das Ungeheuerliche mit dem Zarten, das Kühne mit dem Diskreten zu verbinden weiß. Aus einem psychischen Zwang verfällt der vierzigjährige Humbert Humbert einem grazi
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowohlt
Pages no: 336
Edition language: Deutsch
(Original Review, 1992-02-10)I can speak and write English pretty well, and I am completely lacking in Nabokov's talent for prose. I do, however, wonder whether the fact that English was his fourth or fifth language may have enabled him to approach writing in a different way. He seems to be very awa...
Lolita was... An experience. It was definitely too slow for my taste, though at the same time very well written and moving: I haven't been this angry at anything in a while, nor as disappointed in its ultimate end. After all Lolita's been through, she deserved a much better fate. It might not be t...
I loved it. I had always assumed that I would hate it, knowing that it was about an older man taking advantage of a very young girl. What I hadn't realized was that it is a book knowingly written from the villain's point of view. I had thought it would be all excuses and romanticism. That stuff is t...
I loved it. I had always assumed that I would hate it, knowing that it was about an older man taking advantage of a very young girl. What I hadn't realized was that it is a book knowingly written from the villain's point of view. I had thought it would be all excuses and romanticism. That stuff is t...
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