Лолита

Владимир Набоков

Lolita

In 1955, Lolita was published – the third American novel by Vladimir Nabokov, the creator of The Luzhin Defense, Despair, Invitation to an Execution and The Gift. Causing a scandal on both sides of the ocean, this book elevated the author to the top of the literary Olympus and became one of the most famous and, without a doubt, the greatest works of the twentieth century. Today, when the polemical passions around “Lolita” have long subsided, we can confidently say that this is a book about great love that has overcome illness, death and time, love open to infinity, “love at first sight, at last sight, at the eternal glance.” This edition restores a fragment of Humbert’s diary from the third chapter of the second part of the novel, which was missing in all previous Russian-language editions of Lolita.