LOLITA

Warning: Spoilers follow

Humbert begins traveling around America with Lolita, with whom he is now having a sexual relationship, going from motel to motel. This relationship ends when a rival adult suitor, Clare Quilty, convinces Lolita to leave Humbert and run away with him.

At the end of the novel, when Humbert Humbert briefly reunites with Lolita, it is only to give her the money she has requested so that she and her new husband, Richard Schiller, can make a fresh start in Alaska. Humbert realizes that he still wants her, not because she was one of the class of young girls he refers to as nymphets, but because he has truly fallen in love with her.

The novel is a tragi-comedy narrated by Humbert, who can be quite funny in his observations of American life. His humor is an effective counterpoint to the truly moving nature of the story itself. The tale is told in a more flamboyant style than was usually found in American literature, filled with word play, foreign phrases, anagrams, and invented words such as nymphet, which has since gone on to a life of its own in the dictionaries. Throughout the novel, Nabokov uses a number of literary devices which add to the complexity of the story.

Because of the subject matter, Nabokov had difficulty finding a publisher, eventually resorting to Olympia Press, a publisher of "erotica" in Paris, which published Lolita in 1955. A favorable notice by English author Graham Greene led to widespread critical admiration for the book, and its eventual American publication on August 18, 1958, by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Today, it is considered by many one of the finest novels written in the 20th century.

It has been filmed twice, by Stanley Kubrick (starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers and the girl who played Lolita, Sue Lyon), and by Adrian Lyne (starring as the lolita Dominique Swain, Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith).

Because of the above, the term lolita has come to be applied to any sexually attractive woman (especially in the marketing of pornography) who is either under age or who has only recenly reached the age of consent.

See Also

Other Lolita Themed Films

Pretty Baby (1978) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0078111/ - Brooke Shields

Léon (1994) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/ - Natalie Portman

References

• The best guide to the complexities of Lolita is The Annotated Lolita, by Alfred Appel, Jr., first published by McGraw-Hill in 1970, with a revised edition published by Vintage Books in 1991. ISBN 0679727299
• Original Lolita: ISBN 0679723161
  
  

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  Lolita, Texas

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  Lolita is a town located in Jackson County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 548.

  Geography

  
  Lolita is located at 28°50'15" North, 96°32'35" West (28.837530, -96.542929)¹. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 6.7 km² (2.6 mi²). 6.7 km² (2.6 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

  Demographics

  
  As of the census of 2000, there are 548 people, 201 households, and 142 families residing in the town. The population density is 81.4/km² (210.9/mi²). There are 234 housing units at an average density of 34.7/km² (90.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 85.22% White, 0.18% African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.18% Asian, 0.36% Pacific Islander, 12.04% from other races, and 1.82% from two or more races. 21.90% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 201 households out of which 34.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.7% are married couples living together, 8.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.9% are non-families. 24.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.73 and the average family size is 3.27. In the town the population is spread out with 30.5% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 99.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87.7 males. The median income for a household in the town is $42,065, and the median income for a family is $50,536. Males have a median income of $36,607 versus $26,000 for females. The per capita income for the town is $16,148. 4.2% of the population and 3.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 8.4% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.

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