Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita , Nabokov\'s most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert\'s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation..
Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita , Nabokov\'s most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert\'s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze