TL;Dr - My Book of the Year in 2022.
TL;Dr - My Book of the Year in 2022. In a series of essays put together by the daughter of the man who originally let Lolita debut on the US stage, Jenny Milton Quigley and 30 other modern essayists take the Humbert Humbert, Valdimir Nabakov, 1950s America and a modern "cancel culture' to task. I ate this book like it was fried and dipped in chocolate. I came back for seconds. I rotated it in my brain like a freaking rotisserie chicken and I'm a vegetarian. I like Lolita. I like it a lot. I liked it's dissection even more. By cracking open a book as difficult as Lolita I felt I finally had a glimmer of understanding of what it was even trying to be about. Putting in context, comparing it to real life, examining Nabokov, the tragedy of Dolores Haze and looking through at every critical lens possible …
TL;Dr - My Book of the Year in 2022. In a series of essays put together by the daughter of the man who originally let Lolita debut on the US stage, Jenny Milton Quigley and 30 other modern essayists take the Humbert Humbert, Valdimir Nabakov, 1950s America and a modern "cancel culture' to task. I ate this book like it was fried and dipped in chocolate. I came back for seconds. I rotated it in my brain like a freaking rotisserie chicken and I'm a vegetarian. I like Lolita. I like it a lot. I liked it's dissection even more. By cracking open a book as difficult as Lolita I felt I finally had a glimmer of understanding of what it was even trying to be about. Putting in context, comparing it to real life, examining Nabokov, the tragedy of Dolores Haze and looking through at every critical lens possible made me not only love the OG novel but really fall for everyone who contributed to a novel that's barely talked about today. Read this one!!!
