ENG140Y1 : Lolita (Two Lectures).doc
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Many have tried to imitate but nobody came close. Page. 10- he writes about his mother in one line. English speaking people would take for granted or over-usage of them, nabokov learned to love and appreciate. He was very rich (born rich in russia), his parents owned a massive house. They had to leave it and nabokov never returned (even when he could). Within time lolita the character became more famous than the novel. Lolita is known as a term for little promiscuous, nymph girl even by people who have never read the book. This spread into a fashion (example in japan girls are going for the lolita look). He wrote a novella called the enchanter as a pre-lolita. He thought he had burned it/lost it but he found it after lolita was published. He asked his wife to burn it, she didn"t. She asked their son to do it, he did not.
