Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'.
Lolita on hurja ja vaikuttava kertomus hyväksikäytöstä, rakkaudesta, omistushalusta ja pakkomielteen pelottavasta voimasta. Vladimir Nabokovin mestariteos julkaistiin Pariisissa vuonna 1955 ja julistettiin heti kielletyksi kirjaksi.
Vnimaniju chitatelja predlagaetsja pervyj i naibolee avtobiografichnyj roman vsemirno izvestnogo russko-amerikanskogo pisatelja, odnogo iz krupnejshikh prozaikov XX veka, avtora znamenitoj "Lolity" Vladimira Nabokova.
Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape.
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote.
When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century.
Nabokov's first novel written in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a nuanced, enigmatic potrayal of the conflict between the real and the unreal, and the futile quest for human truth.
Imperator Nikolaj I vo vremja predstavlenija "Revizora" khlopal i mnogo smejalsja, a vykhodja iz lozhi, skazal: "Nu, peska! Vsem dostalos, a mne — bolee vsekh!"
Comme disait parfois son précepteur Pangloss, si Candide n'avait pas été chassé d'un beau château a grands coups de pied au derriere pour l'amour de mademoiselle Cunégonde,