What story is Lolita telling?

The novel describes a middle-aged man, Heng humbert, who immigrated from France to the United States. When he was a teenager, he fell in love with a girl, Annabel, who was 14 years old, and finally Annabel died of typhoid fever, thus creating a pedophile in humbert.

Humbert was first abandoned by a rich widow, and later fell in love with Lolita, the landlady 12-year-old daughter, calling her a leprechaun.

Due to the shadow of childhood, humbert could not extricate herself from Lolita. In order to get close to this precocious and enthusiastic little girl, humbert married his landlady and became Lolita's stepfather.

Later, the landlady found out in her husband's diary that her husband was unfaithful to her daughter. She was very angry, so she wrote three letters and was killed by a car on the way to post them.

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Characteristics of works

One of the most impressive achievements of Lolita is that Nabokov, as an immigrant writer, created the American social and cultural background more truly than most native American writers.

This "sense of reality" is only an essential natural background to a great extent, and it does not give humbert's world of desire any sense of reality in the sociological sense. Nabokov has always been a magician obsessed with manipulating hallucinations.

Like many characters in Nabokov's works, humbert is an extremely individualistic artist in disguise. He is naturally sensitive and imaginative, but almost paranoid.

He once quoted a poet in his novel: "The sense of morality in human nature is an obligation, and we must give the soul a sense of beauty." Of course, in Lolita, this so-called aesthetic feeling is artistic, poetic and full of guilt.

As the object of his desire, Lolita is only the product of humbert's consciousness, a fantasy that he whimsically tries to grab from the external reality and time.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Lolita