{"product_id":"lolita-english-edition-vladimir-nabokov","title":"Lolita, English edition (Vladimir Nabokov)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eLolita \u003c\/i\u003eis comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Humbert Humbert's fixation is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, \u003ci\u003eLolita \u003c\/i\u003ehas lost none of its power to shock and awe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'There's no funnier monster in literature than poor, doomed Humbert Humbert' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eVladimir Nabokov\u003c\/b\u003e (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 368 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65812877115741,"sku":"K015865358","price":10.2,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1586535800001A.jpg?v=1788534587","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/lolita-english-edition-vladimir-nabokov","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}