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'Lolita,' Still The Fire of Readers' Eyes
From:
The Washington Post
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September 25, 2005| Author:
Kim Curtis
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Lolita was 12 when Vladimir Nabokov brought her to life as the
obsession of the man who would become her stepfather, a middle-aged
man who calls her "light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin. My
soul. . . . Lo. Lee. Ta."
After three generations, readers remain relentlessly drawn to
Nabokov's opening lines -- more poetry than prose. They remain
equally repelled by Humbert Humbert, a child molester who essentially
holds his stepdaughter captive; he is as despicable today as he was
i...
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