![]() ![]() He tells his story as though we, the reader, are the judges in his shamefully sexual life. Humbert is an extremely unreliable narrator. Snatching his pubescent prisoner from camp, Humbert and Lolita embark on a year-long road trip across the United States filled with teen tantrums and erotic nights in motor court hotels. ![]() Using irony and a dab of coincidence, Nabokov then throws an unusual curveball at the reader: Charlotte Haze is run over by a car and killed instantly. ![]() Once she is sent off to camp, her mother declares undying love for Humbert and asks for his hand in marriage.Īs if he couldn't get sordid enough, Humbert agrees to marry the pathetic widow so he can gaze upon and touch his tween obsession whenever he likes. Humbert, the meticulous pedophile that he is, keeps a diary of his daily interactions with little Lolita. My sin, my soul." His feelings toward her are disturbing in context and utterly taboo in today's society, but the way he describes his little nymphet is still so charming, adoring and beautifully disgusting. ![]() The first sentence of the book sums up Humbert's instant love affair with this girl of 12: "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. In this Haze household (the father recently died), Humbert meets the girl who will become the driving force behind his entire existence: Dolores "Dolly" Haze. After a failed marriage, Humbert moves to a sleepy town in New England and lives in the house of Charlotte Haze. ![]()
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