Lolita
Subtitle: a screenplay
By: by Vladimir Nabokov.
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Middle-aged men -- Drama.; Girls -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Other titles: Lolita (Motion picture)
Description: As it charts the hypnotized progress of Humbert Humbert, a hypercivilized and amoral European emigre, into the orbit of a treacherously lovely and utterly unimpressionable preteen, Lolita: A Screenplay gleefully demolishes a host of stereotypes - sexual, moral, and aesthetic. Not least among the casualties is the notion that cinema and literature are two separate spheres.

For in his screenplay, Nabokov married the structural and narrative felicities of great cinema to prose as sensuously entrancing as any he had ever written, resulting in a work that will delight cineasts and Nabokovians alike.
Notes: Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1974.