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of lust, you might see from your writer's ancient lust, so that above
impeccable highways if Kumfy and over everything there is-Lo-
AN NT E RNAT ONA CONT ROVE RSY Kabins were suddenly drained of lita."
their pigments and became as
transparent as boxes of glass.,," lt a ratdasadl
THE CONTROVERSY about al- first marriage: "I derived some Lolita is only really captivating fine successful scan'al. Where
di r nuptial iight and to Humbert. The things most re- plots concerning adultery, homo-
leged inmorality in Vladimir sin fom lhenpilnih n pulsive about pre-adolesceint girls: sexuality, and beastiality us longer
Nabokov's Lolita rages in a some- had the idiot in hysterics by sur- romane agazinesechocolas: sedain n b 's, his par
p rise. But reality soon asserted it- romance magazines. chocolate' succeed in selling books, this par-
what ill-defined manner over the self. The bleached curl revealed candy cravings, chewed finger- culiar incest between Humbert
book's hero Humbert Humbert., its melanic root; the down turned nails, thick-smeared lipstick, acne, and Lolita has kept Nabokov at the
Humbert ditto's predihction is to prickles on a shaved skin, the " . a kind of eerie vulgarity top of The New York Times best
for pubescent, sub - teen girls. mobile moist mouth, no matter stemming fronm the snubosed seller list. Until flhe wek of No-
"nymphets." Nabokov's nsvel holds o1«w I stuffed it with love, dis- cuteness of ads and magazine pic- vember 16 even the political
together for nearly 400 pages be- closed ignominously its resem- tures . . . smelling of crushed tempest over Pasteinak's Dr. Zhi-
cause flere ar pubescent uin- blanice to the cosresponding part dasies and sweat," are insignificant vago was an insufficient match
phets, mainly Lota. \vho like ii a treasured portrait of her to Humbert. ". . . what is most for the sexual storm around Lo-
Humbert. toad-dead mausa: and presently, singular is that she, this Lolita. lita.
The scandal around Lolita coin- instead of a pale little gutter girl my Lots, has individualized the -Garden Momma
menced when the Olympia Press of 51Humbert Humbert had on his
Paris first issued the book in 1955., hainds a large, puffy, short-legged,
American publisher s wouldn't big - breasted, and pr actically
touch it. Nabokov's audience was brainless baba." IA)O i iI AT VOUII
already well established in England ! Humbert describes himself as'
wherehiselse r hook, Real ILife ". ..laneky, big-bonied, wooly- fl flXu CAS E 5 L % UB 'IN')
of Sebasti'an Knight used Pnin had cested tHunmbert Hum bert, with
m t etwthcosiderable, if esoteric, thick black eye-browss and a queE
success. It wa a itoEnglaned that access, and a cesspoolful of rotting
the double-volumned, 'reen paper monsters beheind isis slow boyishe
cover volumes of Lolita first made preme -- prompts Humbert to smile." With This Beautiful Top Grain Cowhide Brief Case
their noisy intrusion. emarry the widowed Mrs. Haze.
Our lovestruck Humbert feels thus N THEIR YEARLONG treck of
THE BRITISH CUSTOMS could makes his chase after young Lolita Humbert and Lolita across the
not see their way to giving un- more socially acceptable. In the United States Nabokov reveals toe Manufacturers Seconds
obstructed passage to such blight. process of the quest for Delores- us a phenominal panorama of the
But instead of outright confisca- Lo-Lola-Lolita Mrs. haze op- American Road: ". . . for all along
tion of the book they made quiet portunely expires. our route countless motor courts , Were x25.00
agreements with the French Au- To Humbert's surprise Lolita
thorities, and the book was de- more than willingly submits to his proclaimed their vacancy in neon NOW
clared, by the French Authorities, heavy amours. It is not, we dis- lights, ready to accommodate
as "illegal for export outside cover, the first such adventure for salesmen, escaped convicts, im- %
France." either of them.. potents, family groups, as well as
In the United States the prob- A frenetic trip across the Ui the most corrupt and vigorous
1e uswassomewhat differe t ee States ensu as'Keroac's On the couples, Ah gentle drivers gIld- UMUCH'S BOOKSTORE . . 549 E. Uni-ersity
the illustrious Olympia Press is Road pales ins comparison) buit rm through summer's bhack LL IH
known to the intellectually orient- Lolita eventually grows out of her nights, what frolics, what twists
ed Post Office snoopers as pur- nymphancy to run away and marry
veyers of erotica to the noble a laborer. Jealous Humbert, after
literati, several years of wierd plotting and
Their publications are referred msadness, finds an obscure play-
to by our low-brow Customs Police right who has, at an earlier time,
as hideous little green rags. To also enjoyed the indulgences of
the American reading public the Lolita. Humbert riddles him with ~
Olympia Press is the major over- bullets.
seas source of the forbidden works Our hero is retired to prison
of D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, where he writes the memoirs of State and Liberty
Marquis de Sade, Jean Genet, and this shabby affair. These memoirs
Frank Harris. ae what we know as Lolita.
HUMBERT HUMBERT is a man S A WHOLE Lolita is funny, SHOP EARLY SHOP
of educated and comfortably; very funny. A part of his hilar-
monied continental European so- ity is shock-effect humor. MoreI l
ciety. After an unsuccessful first important, however, its language IN A NN A RBO R
marriage he inherits a small for- is stepped in puns ( both English A
tune which requires him to move and French) and exaggeratedly
to the United States.I spiced descriptions of its char- I e e b r.. o m ae
It is here that most of the novel acters and situations.
occurs. Discovery of the 12 year Something is truly captive in inm tes friends and famy '
old Delores Haze-- nymphet su- Humbert's dismissal of his trivial r
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