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Lolita is a 1997 drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Stephen Schiff. It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov 's 1955 novel of the same name and stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert and Dominique Swain as Dolores "Lolita" Haze, with supporting roles by Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze and Frank Langella as Clare Quilty.
Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel, and is at any rate his most widely known one, exhibiting the love of intricate wordplay and descriptive detail that characterized all his works. Lolita was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Pale Fire (1962) was ranked 53rd on the same list ...
With an introduction by Martin Amis. 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. Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's ...
France Inter. Podcasts. Ça peut pas faire de mal. Lolita, le chef d'oeuvre de Vladimir Nabokov. C'est l'un des romans les plus controversés du XXème siècle : un ouvrage très critiqué, parfois censuré, et qui doit en fait son succès au scandale qu'il provoqua à sa publication en 1955.
Paris. Date de parution. 1959. modifier. Fermer. Le récit est écrit comme la longue confession d'un homme, Humbert Humbert, se présentant comme « nympholepte » et décrivant la relation qu'il a eue avec Dolorès Haze durant plusieurs années. Au début du roman, Humbert a 37 ans et la jeune fille, qu'il surnomme « Lolita », a 12 ans et demi.
Lolita continues to be studied and discussed for its literary merit and the challenging questions it poses. The novel has inspired various adaptations for film, stage, and other artistic mediums. These include a 1962 film directed by Stanley Kubrick starring James Mason as Humbert, Sue Lyons as Lolita, and Shelley Winters as Lolita’s mother, Charlotte Haze.
In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)—and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
