lolita

When Vladimir Nabokov finished writing the novel Lolita he knew the explosive subject matter that he was now holding in his hands. After being turned down by publishing houses numerous times to let loose his controversial story to the public, it was finally published by the French in 1955. Many critics were shocked and called it pornography while others praised his work. How could a pure thinking author conjugate ideas on issues so dark and depraved? What were his intentions of doing so, and in the end how did it become hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time? It is easy to think one can judge this man by the novel he wrote. Is not the creation, at least in some part, part of the creator? Surely only a twisted mind, a depraved heart could conjure such an explicit narrator, capable of violating young girls, though remaining very humanistic.
Vladimir Nabokov’s inspiration for writing Lolita came from hearing about an ape who was taught to draw after being locked in a ...