"Look at this tangle of thorns": Detangling Dolores Haze from Lolita
Or, how do you solve a problem like Lolita?
AN: This is the introductory chapter to my 80-page thesis on Lolita and its subsequent film adaptations. I will be posting a new chapter every few days.
In the foreword to the American first edition of his infamous and celebrated novel Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov adopts the persona of John Ray Jr., Ph.D and purports to explain the book’s purpose. In the gui…
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