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It might be fun. Having never heard of the author before, I pulled it off the shelf because I liked the font on the spine. I was treated to a boy dressed up in a panda suit on the front cover and immediately, I was hooked. Next to the panda boy is a quote by Nick Cave: Etgar Allison is our young protagonist. He is a fifteen year old left home with only his dog, Amundsen, on Easter holiday, while his parents head to Russia for a wedding.
I had read the whole book, enjoyed the majority but by the end I was left unsatisfied and disappointed. The story seemed to speed up pretty quick and then suddenly end. It's as if the fast forward button had been lodged and Brooks was eager to finish it. This being said it wasn't a bad read.
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It's funny, it's witty and entertaining. Diferente a lo que suelo leer. No es un libro que recomiende a todos. Oct 10, Rebecca rated it it was amazing. When I got the book, I was totally excited and had to read it immediately. And it was worth it. Honestly, 'Lolito' is an epic book written by an awesome writer. When year-old Etgar finds out that his girlfriend betrayed him and lied to him, he trys to find diversion and signs in an adult chatroom and begins to chat with Macy, a middle-aged housewife.
Etgar, being totally screwed up, lonely, finds concolation in this and starts to build up ki When I got the book, I was totally excited and had to read it immediately. Etgar, being totally screwed up, lonely, finds concolation in this and starts to build up kind of a relationship with Macy, including cyber sex and even a real life meeting. This book blow me over, seriously. Etgar is an absolutely fascination character, who goes through a lot of emotions during the story.
That makes him even more interesting, looking at the fact, that this books is also concentrating on our generation.
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However, Etgar is not some mainstream boy you meet on the street, he is more than that, more thoughtful and definitely more multilayred. On the one hand, he does what boys his age do: But on the other hand, he doesn't like partys and many people, he gets uncomfortable, when he is comfronted with exercises that include talking to strangers and a bit courage, making him seem like a pretty insecure teenager. I do not think, that he is a good example for what teenagers his age do in general, but his life and the stuff he sees, notices and thinks about are.
His insecurity continues, when he meets Mace. For example, he excuses for nearly everything. However, there are a few things that stay a bit unclear, especially about Macy. You don't get to know, if she really didn't know about Etgars age before meeting him and it is kind of vague what happens afterr they met. You know, that she doesn't go to prison, but there is no talk or communication between her and Etgar, which makes you feel a bit confused about whether it is over now or not.
But that doesn't make it less funny or fascinating. The way Brooks mangaged it to show how teenagers sometimes act, speak and think is still unbelievable. Sometimes Etgar thought about stuff, I never thought about. And then again it was shocking, but totally funny. If you read it, pay also attention to the way Etgar and his friends speak.
There is this epic line on page where Aslam says "People are such dicks," All in all I think that 'Lolito' is an amazing book and definitely worth reading. It is funny and fascinating and once you begun with it, you can't stop.
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Y repito, es muy divertido. Si crees que se ha pasado, que los chavales no h Grata sorpresa. Aug 26, Hannah James rated it it was amazing Shelves: I've just finished this and I have to say I absolutely loved it. I find Brooks' talent to write as a teen not obvious but impressive; I found Grow Up and it's protagonist's voice unsettling until I looked at the back page and realised just why it was so juvenile but yet perfect I was also fairly pissed off that Brooks is younger than me and published, but don't we all?
This book made me laugh aloud on numerous occasions which is a feat. I also genuinely cared about Etgar and the end of the st I've just finished this and I have to say I absolutely loved it. I also genuinely cared about Etgar and the end of the story. That's all effectively all I can say; I thought it was fantastic.
Not as shocking as the cover blurb and other reviews suggest, although genuinely brilliant. Me estreno con Ben Brooks y tengo decir que tanto las expectativas como la realidad ha sido muy positivas. El autor sabe tratar el tema de la pedofilia de una manera muy peculiar pero a la vez muy elegante.
Os aseguro, yo vuelvo a repetir con Ben Brooks sin dudarlo. The main problem with this book is that the most interesting part and with "Lolito" as a title it's something you don't expect to be a problem is barely deIivered, meaning the love affair. I liked the chats and the two of them hanging out. Jul 08, G rated it did not like it. From the first rape joke I was grossed out and then it never really got any better. Aug 23, Thom rated it really liked it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
To view it, click here. Following the recent conviction of teacher Jeremy Forrest for sexual offences and the abduction of one of his pupils, there has been much debate over the value we place on the choices made by teenagers. The narrator, Etgar, is a young 15, and his connection with the adult world is slim.
The Banks did something. Someone sexed someone else' , whilst at times of stress, he retreats to watching Disney films and animal documentaries. He drinks a lot at house parties, but the world of clubbing is remote — 'Once, me, Alice and Aslan got into Diva with fake IDs'. His world is disturbed when his girlfriend Alice cheats on him. In response to this betrayal, Etgar takes refuge in adult chat rooms. Throughout Lolito, Brooks looks at locations where normal rules are suspended.
Rather than being sleazy, the conversation is harmless, childlike: Trying to make an impression, Etgar claims to be a mortgage broker. The pretence is never really believable 'it's mortgage breaking season. Everyone wants their mortgages broken this time of year' , and becomes even less sustainable when they agree to meet.
Their first date is full of cringe-inducing comedy as Etgar spills wine and sticks his finger up Macy's nose. When they consummate their relationship, Macy is aware of each Etgar's age 'I'm not stupid. Macy reveals that she is 46 and that she has two children, and shows Etgar the bruises inflicted on her by her husband. She is not entirely honest, however, telling him that she is a housewife, rather than revealing her true occupation.
He refers to Alice's two abortions, and regularly references online porn and snuff movies. This doesn't seem to be the key to his behaviour though. Instead, is emotionally confused by the ending of his relationship, lacking effective guidance 'Dad stands up and walks through to the toilet. He doesn't like to watch when me and Mum talk about emotions' , and sees the affair with Macy as an adventure. He doesn't seem traumatised by what happened — he is loyal to Macy, and the intrusion of the press and the police into his world seems to cause more emotional damage than anything that happened online or in the hotel room.
Brooks seems to suggest that she has been somehow infantilised by her abusive husband, but Etgar is not intuitive enough to fully understand her. Maybe she is seeking a partner she can dominate, or simply one who seems innocent, doesn't pose a physical threat. Ultimately, she is presented as having the most to lose through her actions.
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Companion to the American Short Story. Modern Erotic Literature also so classify Lolita. More cautious classifications have included a "novel with erotic motifs" [9] or one of "a number of works of classical erotic literature and art, and to novels that contain elements of eroticism, like Ulysses and Lady Chatterley's Lover ". This classification has been disputed. Malcolm Bradbury writes "at first famous as an erotic novel, Lolita soon won its way as a literary one—a late modernist distillation of the whole crucial mythology. Lolita is characterized by irony and sarcasm; it is not an erotic novel.
The novel is narrated by Humbert, who riddles the narrative with word play and his wry observations of American culture. The novel's flamboyant style is characterized by double entendres , multilingual puns , anagrams , and coinages such as nymphet , a word that has since had a life of its own and can be found in most dictionaries, and the lesser-used "faunlet". Most writers see Humbert as an unreliable narrator and credit Nabokov's powers as an ironist.
Critics have further noted that, since the novel is a first person narrative by Humbert, the novel gives very little information about what Lolita is like as a person, that in effect she has been silenced by not being the book's narrator. Nomi Tamir-Ghez writes "Not only is Lolita's voice silenced, her point of view, the way she sees the situation and feels about it, is rarely mentioned and can be only surmised by the reader It's Lolita as a memory".
He concluded that a stage monologue would be truer to the book than any film could possibly be. Clegg sees the novel's non-disclosure of Lolita's feelings as directly linked to the fact that her "real" name is Dolores and only Humbert refers to her as Lolita. The human child, the one noticed by non- nymphomaniacs , answers to other names, "Lo", "Lola", "Dolly", and, least alluring of all, "Dolores".
The Siren-like Humbert sings a song of himself, to himself, and titles that self and that song "Lolita". To transform Dolores into Lolita, to seal this sad adolescent within his musky self, Humbert must deny her her humanity. In , Iranian expatriate Azar Nafisi published the memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran about a covert women's reading group.
She notes "Because her name is not Lolita, her real name is Dolores which as you know in Latin means dolour, so her real name is associated with sorrow and with anguish and with innocence, while Lolita becomes a sort of light-headed, seductive, and airy name. The Lolita of our novel is both of these at the same time and in our culture here today we only associate it with one aspect of that little girl and the crassest interpretation of her. For Nafisi, the essence of the novel is Humbert's solipsism and his erasure of Lolita's independent identity.
Yet she does have a past. Despite Humbert's attempts to orphan Lolita by robbing her of her history, that past is still given to us in glimpses. One of the novel's early champions, Lionel Trilling , warned in of the moral difficulty in interpreting a book with so eloquent and so self-deceived a narrator: A minority of critics have accepted Humbert's version of events at face value. In , Dorothy Parker described the novel as "the engrossing, anguished story of a man, a man of taste and culture, who can love only little girls" and Lolita as "a dreadful little creature, selfish, hard, vulgar, and foul-tempered".
This is no pretty theme, but it is one with which social workers, magistrates and psychiatrists are familiar. In his essay on Stalinism Koba the Dread , Martin Amis proposes that Lolita is an elaborate metaphor for the totalitarianism that destroyed the Russia of Nabokov's childhood though Nabokov states in his afterword that he "[detests] symbols and allegories ". Amis interprets it as a story of tyranny told from the point of view of the tyrant. Nabokov finished Lolita on 6 December , five years after starting it. Via his translator Doussia Ergaz, it reached Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press , "three-quarters of [whose] list was pornographic trash".
Lolita was published in September , as a pair of green paperbacks "swarming with typographical errors". Eventually, at the very end of , Graham Greene , in the London Sunday Times , called it one of the three best books of The novel then appeared in Danish and Dutch translations. Two editions of a Swedish translation were withdrawn at the author's request. Despite initial trepidation, there was no official response in the U.
Putnam's Sons in August The book was into a third printing within days and became the first since Gone with the Wind to sell , copies in its first three weeks. The novel continues to generate controversy today as modern society has become increasingly aware of the lasting damage created by child sexual abuse. In , an entire book was published on the best ways to teach the novel in a college classroom given that "its particular mix of narrative strategies, ornate allusive prose, and troublesome subject matter complicates its presentation to students".
Many critics describe Humbert as a rapist , notably Azar Nafisi in her best-selling Reading Lolita in Tehran , [47] though in a survey of critics David Larmour notes that other interpreters of the novel have been reluctant to use that term. Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd denies that it was rape on the grounds that Dolores was not a virgin and seduced Humbert in the morning of their hotel stay. It bears many similarities to Lolita , but also has significant differences: The theme of hebephilia was already touched on by Nabokov in his short story " A Nursery Tale ", written in Also, in the Laughter in the Dark , Margot Peters is 16 and already had an affair when middle-aged Albinus becomes attracted to her.
In chapter three of the novel The Gift written in Russian in —37 the similar gist of Lolita ' s first chapter is outlined to the protagonist, Fyodor Cherdyntsev, by his landlord Shchyogolev as an idea of a novel he would write "if I only had the time": Shchyogolev says it happened "in reality" to a friend of his; it is made clear to the reader that it concerns himself and his stepdaughter Zina 15 at the time of Shchyogolev's marriage to her mother who becomes the love of Fyodor's life.
In April , Nabokov wrote to Edmund Wilson: Nabokov used the title A Kingdom by the Sea in his pseudo-autobiographical novel Look at the Harlequins!
In Nabokov's novel Pale Fire , the titular poem by fictional John Shade mentions Hurricane Lolita coming up the American east coast in , and narrator Charles Kinbote in the commentary later in the book notes it, questioning why anyone would have chosen an obscure Spanish nickname for a hurricane. There were no hurricanes named Lolita that year , but that is the year that Lolita the novel was published in North America.
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The unfinished novel The Original of Laura , published posthumously, features the character Hubert H. Hubert, an older man preying upon then-child protagonist, Flora. Unlike those of Humbert Humbert in Lolita , Hubert's advances are unsuccessful. The novel abounds in allusions to classical and modern literature.
Many are references to Humbert's own favorite poet, Edgar Allan Poe. Humbert Humbert's first love, Annabel Leigh, is named after the "maiden" in the poem " Annabel Lee " by Poe; this poem is alluded to many times in the novel, and its lines are borrowed to describe Humbert's love. A passage in chapter 11 reuses verbatim Poe's phrase A variant of this line is reprised in the opening of chapter one, which reads In a princedom by the sea. Humbert is not, however, his real name, but a chosen pseudonym.
Chapter 26 of Part One contains a parody of Joyce 's stream of consciousness. He even called Carroll the "first Humbert Humbert". In her book, Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin , Joyce Milton claims that a major inspiration for the novel was Charlie Chaplin 's relationship with his second wife, Lita Grey , whose real name was Lillita and is often misstated as Lolita. Graham Vickers in his book Chasing Lolita: Although Appel's comprehensive Annotated Lolita contains no references to Charlie Chaplin, others have picked up several oblique references to Chaplin's life in Nabokov's book.
Lolita's first sexual encounter was with a boy named Charlie Holmes, whom Humbert describes as "the silent When Humbert visits Lolita in a class at her school, he notes a print of the same painting in the classroom. Delaney's article notes many other parallels as well. The foreword refers to "the monumental decision rendered December 6, by Hon. Woolsey in regard to another, considerably more outspoken book"—that is, the decision in the case United States v. In chapter 35 of Part Two, Humbert's " death sentence " on Quilty parodies the rhythm and use of anaphora in T.
Eliot 's poem Ash Wednesday. Many other references to classical and Romantic literature abound, including references to Lord Byron 's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and to the poetry of Laurence Sterne. In addition to the possible prototypes of Lewis Carroll and Charlie Chaplin mentioned above in Allusions , Alexander Dolinin suggests [59] that the prototype of Lolita was year-old Florence Horner , kidnapped in by year-old mechanic Frank La Salle, who had caught her stealing a five-cent notebook. La Salle traveled with her over various states for 21 months and is believed to have raped her.
He claimed that he was an FBI agent and threatened to "turn her in" for the theft and to send her to "a place for girls like you. Had I done to Dolly, perhaps, what Frank Lasalle, a fifty-year-old mechanic, had done to eleven-year-old Sally Horner in ? German academic Michael Maar 's book The Two Lolitas [60] describes his recent discovery of a German short story titled "Lolita" whose middle-aged narrator describes travelling abroad as a student. He takes a room as a lodger and instantly becomes obsessed with the preteen girl also named Lolita who lives in the same house.
Maar has speculated that Nabokov may have had cryptomnesia "hidden memory" while he was composing Lolita during the s. Maar says that until Nabokov lived in the same section of Berlin as the author, Heinz von Eschwege pen name: Heinz von Lichberg , and was most likely familiar with his work, which was widely available in Germany during Nabokov's time there. Did Nabokov take literary liberties? Nothing of what we admire in Lolita is already to be found in the tale; the former is in no way deducible from the latter. A Plagiarism" in Harper's Magazine on this story.
One of the first things Nabokov makes a point of saying is that, despite John Ray Jr. Nabokov adds that "the initial shiver of inspiration" for Lolita "was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: In response to an American critic who characterized Lolita as the record of Nabokov's "love affair with the romantic novel", Nabokov writes that "the substitution of 'English language' for 'romantic novel' would make this elegant formula more correct".
Nabokov concludes the afterword with a reference to his beloved first language, which he abandoned as a writer once he moved to the United States in Nabokov rated the book highly. In an interview for BBC Television in , he said:. Lolita is a special favorite of mine. It was my most difficult book—the book that treated of a theme which was so distant, so remote, from my own emotional life that it gave me a special pleasure to use my combinational talent to make it real. Over a year later, in an interview for Playboy , he said:.