There are few things in the history of American publishing that are stranger than the fact that "Lolita" was #1 on the NYT bestseller list for 7 weeks - in 1958!
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It's strange that a high-art novel that was illegal in other countries was a mainstream hit in Eisenhower's America.
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Americans thought it was a dirty book. Nobody is more salacious than a Puritan.
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I agree. Nabokov was writing about so much more than just sex. He saw something about America that he characterized in that way. An innocence betrayed - yet not really bothered by its betrayal.
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