mishari reviewed Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Review of 'Lolita' on 'GoodReads'
2 stars
Had to put the book down, don't have the patience for the prose. Maybe I'll finish the book one day and change the rating.
Paperback, 503 pages
Chinese language
Published Sept. 30, 2005 by Shanghai yi wen chu ban she.
A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him.
Had to put the book down, don't have the patience for the prose. Maybe I'll finish the book one day and change the rating.
But incredible literature, depictions of its US setting and mentality and humor. It's perverse, but the real discomfort for me is the strong identification and visibility of misuse of human beings and selfish power in so many relationships.