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10 de sept. de 2018 · El caso de la niña que inspiró ‘Lolita’. Un nuevo libro profundiza en la relación entre la exitosa novela de Nabokov y la historia real de Sally Horner, de 11 años, secuestrada y maltratada por...
28 de jun. de 2022 · El trabajo de Vera Nabókoba en ‘Lolita’. Varios historiadores y expertos consideran que Vera Nabókoba fue una co-autora de Lolita, al ser la editora de la novela y reescribir varios...
Chez Nabokov, Lolita est une enfant victime d'un prédateur sexuel. Ce roman n'est en aucun cas une apologie de la pédocriminalité. Par quels mécanismes son personnage est-il devenu une icône érotique? Un brillant documentaire d'Arte examine les mécanismes d'un immense malentendu.
- Dorothée Barba
- Dorothée Barba
Lolita es una película dirigida por Stanley Kubrick con James Mason, Sue Lyon. Sinopsis : Adaptación de la novela de Vladimir Nabokov, modificando el romance entre un intelectual de mediana...
- Stanley Kubrick
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- Overview
- Early life and work
- Novels: The Defense, Lolita, and The Gift
Vladimir Nabokov (born April 22, 1899, St. Petersburg, Russia—died July 2, 1977, Montreux, Switzerland) was a Russian-born American novelist and critic and the foremost of the post-1917 émigré authors. He wrote in both Russian and English, and his best works, including Lolita (1955), feature stylish, intricate literary effects.
Nabokov was born into an old aristocratic family. His father, V.D. Nabokov, was a leader of the pre-Revolutionary liberal Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) in Russia and was the author of numerous books and articles on criminal law and politics, among them The Provisional Government (1922), which was one of the primary sources on the downfall of the Kerensky regime. In 1922, after the family had settled in Berlin, the elder Nabokov was assassinated by a reactionary rightist while shielding another man at a public meeting; although his novelist son disclaimed any influence of this event upon his art, the theme of assassination by mistake has figured prominently in Nabokov’s novels. Nabokov’s enormous affection for his father and for the milieu in which he was raised is evident in his autobiography Speak, Memory (revised version, 1967).
Nabokov published two collections of verse, Poems (1916) and Two Paths (1918), before leaving Russia in 1919. He and his family made their way to England, and he attended Trinity College, Cambridge, on a scholarship provided for the sons of prominent Russians in exile. While at Cambridge he first studied zoology but soon switched to French and Russian literature; he graduated with first-class honours in 1922 and subsequently wrote that his almost effortless attainment of this degree was “one of the very few ‘utilitarian’ sins on my conscience.” While still in England he continued to write poetry, mainly in Russian but also in English, and two collections of his Russian poetry, The Cluster and The Empyrean Path, appeared in 1923. In Nabokov’s mature opinion, these poems were “polished and sterile.”
Between 1922 and 1940 Nabokov lived in Germany and France, and, while continuing to write poetry, he experimented with drama and even collaborated on several unproduced motion-picture scenarios. A five-act play written 1923–24, Tragediya gospodina Morna (The Tragedy of Mr. Morn), was published posthumously, first in 1997 in a Russian literary journal and then in 2008 as a stand-alone volume. By 1925 he settled upon prose as his main genre. His first short story had already been published in Berlin in 1924. His first novel, Mashenka (Mary), appeared in 1926; it was avowedly autobiographical and contains descriptions of the young Nabokov’s first serious romance as well as of the Nabokov family estate, both of which are also described in Speak, Memory. Nabokov did not again draw so heavily upon his personal experience as he had in Mashenka until his episodic novel about an émigré professor of Russian in the United States, Pnin (1957), which is to some extent based on his experiences while teaching (1948–58) Russian and European literature at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
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His second novel, King, Queen, Knave, which appeared in 1928, marked his turn to a highly stylized form that characterized his art thereafter. His chess novel, The Defense, followed two years later and won him recognition as the best of the younger Russian émigré writers. In the next five years he produced four novels and a novella. Of these, Despair and Invitation to a Beheading were his first works of importance and foreshadowed his later fame.
During his years of European emigration, Nabokov lived in a state of happy and continual semipenury. All his Russian novels were published in very small editions in Berlin and Paris. His first two novels had German translations, and the money he obtained for them he used for butterfly-hunting expeditions (he eventually published 18 scientific papers on entomology). But until his best seller Lolita, no book he wrote in Russian or English produced more than a few hundred dollars. During the period in which he wrote his first eight novels, he made his living in Berlin and later in Paris by giving lessons in tennis, Russian, and English and from occasional walk-on parts in films (now forgotten). His wife, the former Véra Evseyevna Slonim, whom he married in 1925, worked as a translator. From the time of the loss of his home in Russia, Nabokov’s only attachment was to what he termed the “unreal estate” of memory and art. He never purchased a house, preferring instead to live in houses rented from other professors on sabbatical leave. Even after great wealth came to him with the success of Lolita and the subsequent interest in his previous work, Nabokov and his family (he and his wife had one son, Dmitri) chose to live (from 1959) in genteelly shabby quarters in a Swiss hotel.
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2 de may. de 2021 · ‘Lolita’, de Nabokov, conserva su atracción en tiempos del Me Too. Un ensayo publicado en Estados Unidos analiza las causas del influjo y fascinación que despierta la novela seis décadas...
Lolita is an American 1962 black comedy - psychological drama film [9] directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the eponymous 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov . The black-and-white film follows a middle-aged literature lecturer who writes as "Humbert Humbert" and has hebephilia.
