LolitaPar "Vladimir Nabokov"
Note moyenne : 4.32 (sur 19 notes)Editions Flammarion, 1977-02-04 -ISBN 2070368998
par Outis, le 2007-10-21 18:40:01
Mon premier est un homme d’âge mûr, personnage principal et narrateur du roman. Immigré de fraîche date aux États-Unis, Humbert Humbert, pétri de la culture classique du vieux continent, recherche...
par Outis, le 2007-10-21 19:07:30
Pourquoi imaginais-je que nous serions heureux à l'étranger ? Parce qu'un changement de cadre est la fiction traditionnelle à quoi se raccrochent les amants, et les poumons, condamnés.
par Outis, le 2007-10-21 19:03:59
Quand ils furent tous partis, ma Lo fit "Pouah!" et se laissa choir dans un fauteuil les yeux fermés, les quatre membres étendus, telle une étoile de mer, en une parodie de dégoût et d'épuisement...
par Outis, le 2007-10-21 18:58:51
J'errai d'une salle à l'autre, la chair en fête, l'âme sombre : car le regard du désir est toujours morose; le désir n'est jamais assuré (quand bien même sa victime veloutée serait-elle claquemurée...
par Outis, le 2007-10-21 18:51:33
Mais en notre âge petit-bourgeois et indiscret, l'affaire ne se fût pas passée aussi simplement que dans l'or et le brocart des palais d'autrefois. Aujourd'hui, qui veut se faire assassin doit être...
Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of pos