The real inspiration behind Lolita is the English language. It's Nobakov's love affair with the English language in which he took so much delight. As a non-native speaker, this was his first novel in English. Be must have laughed all the way to the bank. This could not be a film.
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It's Nabokov and no, that's not his first novel in English.
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Thank you for correcting my spelling. I'll have to find my source of this information which I read at the time I read Lolita c 1960 (twice) since it was such a delightful play on multiple threads with the English language.
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Well, um, some novels are murder mysteries.
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Sadly, Sarah Weinman's book is stunted by the same emotional blindness that allowed the author to support and enable her vile ex-boyfriend, Ed Champion, and his multi-year pattern of abuse and harassment of women.
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Bill Clinton is fond of a plane called Lolita
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