num_pages: 335
description:  When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. With an introduction by Martin Amis.
language: English
title: Lolita
titlecomplete: Lolita
characters: Humbert Humbert, Dolores “Lolita” Haze, Charlotte Haze, Clare Quilty
genres: 20th Century, Russia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Adult, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 818393
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -347126400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Premios Fervenzas Literarias
category: Traducción 
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf