Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

Lo-lee-ta, Lolita a 336 page book written in English by Vladimir Nabokov and published in Paris 1955. Nabokov was extremely meticulous when writing Lolita, as his wordplay is world renown. Lolita is no doubt one of the best books of postmodern literature; however, Lolita is also a highly criticized book as to which many believe it to be of pornographic descent. While Lolita, is a book that heavily documents the life of a pedophile Humbert Humbert (H.H.), who falls helplessly in love with a 12 year old girl named Dolores Haze or more commonly known as Lolita. As previously stated, Nabokov is a very meticulous writer as to which Lolita dives deep in between the seams of post-modern literature. However, in order to break down Nabokov’s reality

Humbert who has currently lost Lolita, and his fortune has decided to find and kill Quilty. At this point Nabokov is still trying to play with his reader’s minds. However, at this point his readers are already aware of his scheme and so forth no longer fights Nabokov’s opposition as “we” too are seeking revenge for stealing Lolita away and tainting her. Quilty’s home is on Grimm Road, as Nabokov gives reference to the Brothers Grimm as another double and symbol as Quilty’s future looks grim,. As a result, Nabokov foreshadows Humbert Humbert’s traumatic end, by depicting a scene in which Humbert drives past a drive in movie during a gun

During the battle Nabokov, Humbert, and his reader’s all seem to want to take Quilty’s life. As it is Quilty’s fault that he deconstructed the long anticipated love story between Lo the reincarnation of Humbert’s young first love, Annabel and Humbert. After Quilty’s death, we see Nabokov once again referencing fairy tales as he depicts Quilty in a purple robe, as such demonstrating Quilty as an evil figure within a fairy tale. Thus, Humbert being the obvious hero to end Quilty’s abhorrent reign. Despite Humbert killing Quilty, Nabokov leaves room to suggest that Quilty doesn’t actually exist due to his quote, “I rolled over him. We rolled over me. They rolled over him. We rolled over us…" (Nabokov 299). Subsequently, portraying Humbert and Quilty as being both evil, and not good versus evil. A shock to the readers mind as if Quilty is but yet just a different side of Humbert and Quilty are one in the same giving reason that Humbert has a multiple personalities