Lolita

A reprint of one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Published under the editorship of Nabokov Foundation expert Andrei Babikov, with the correction of typos and the preservation of some of Nabokov's spelling, transliteration and punctuation features. Now it is a classic of world literature, a novel that no connoisseur of subtle and intelligent prose can pass by. The book was included in the lists of the main books of the century according to the New Library, Le Monde and Time. But when Nabokov finished the work in 1954, no American publishing house risked publishing the novel. In the end, the French publishing house Olympia Press, which published avant-garde and erotic literature, gave its consent. Since then, the novel has been banned and cursed, extolled and idolized. The story of thirty-seven-year-old Humbert Humbert's passion for his twelve-year-old stepdaughter Dolores is one of the first literary works devoted to a large-scale study of the topic of pedophilia. But this is only the first plan of the work, and the number of plans in "Lolita" is incredibly large. Here is a parody of popular literary genres, and a reflection on American and European cultures, and an impeccable stylistic experiment, and sadness about lost innocence. Not one specific girl, but the entire era during which the novel's action unfolds.