>Search on google for Vladimir Nabokov Lolita >shit brix

is this book about childpornography? i havent read it yet should I?

>>8482169
Penguin used a Balthus painting as a Lolita cover? I see that image on two blogs, but I suspect it's fake.

>>8482175
It's about a pedophile man who eventually gets hiw own little girl and travel around the USA with her.

>>8482175
Please be trolling.

>go to imagefap.com
>search for lolita
>shit brix

>>8482175
reported for not abbreviating it

>>8482611
It is real, I've come across it in second hand book shops. It was part of the Pengun Twentieth Century Classics series, published in the 90s, I believe. Penguin has consistently used sexy covers for editions of Lolita (as they should, in my opinion), until recently, the most recent cover being shamefully politically correct crap which has nothing to do with novel.

>>8483352
Didn't Nabokov say that publishers shouldn't use suggestive/erotic imagery for the cover?

>>8484054
Well I gueas that means Nabokov wanted CENSORSHIP.

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>>8483352
best covers are just

"Author - Title" on a blank canvas.

cover art is for mongrels, print size and binding and possibly footnotes are all that matter

>>8486364
actually the best cover is a naked lady on a dragon

>>8483352
>I've come across it in second hand book shops
:^)

>>8482169
is the book genuinely worth reading, or is it an edgelord meme?

>>8482169
I never read Lolita but I always figured she was just a girl between the ages of 16-17. Not an actual child.

>>8486462
Yes, it is worth reading. Great book involving an unreliable narrator. If you're ever in doubt, find it in a store or library and flip through it.

>>8486470
the age her in the film adaptations but in the book humbert's obsession is girls in very early puberty. the book wouldn't be so infamous if it was about banging a 16 year old, that's not even illegal in most places.

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>>8486493
Well, I might have to look in to that now

>>8484054
Balthus is perfect for it because his paintings are about the tension between innocence and seduction/temptation.

Nabokov is a pleb

>>8483352
what was the last cover they used? wasnt that of girl on laying on some grass?

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>>8486665
This is the current cover.

>>8486771
The fuck does a vase of flowers and a bowl of mangos have to do with the subject matter?

>>8486805
wasnt the late mrs humbert a painter of such scenes

>>8486805
if you look at the vase very closely you can see the reflection of a man fucking a child

>>8486805
Pastiche of banality is one of the major literary agendas of the book. Fruits and flowers are classic sexual symbols (even in the goddamn book!), while also seeming naively innocuous.

>>8486805
MUH MOTEL WALLPAPER

just got Ada or Ardor. any good?

>>8487178
Probably Nabby's best work, but you'll be needing this http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/

>>8487322

how fucked up is that website

>>8487426
Click on a chapter and then click on the links within the chapters to make the footnote annotations show up in the frame at the bottom of the page. The book text is inside that tiny frame because the line breaks are hard anyway. Shrink your browser window if the proportions bother you. This project has been around since people had 1024x768 screens and since frames were a typical part of web design, and as you can see they are still not done with the annotation. Goes to show that Ada is one of the richest books ever written.

You can also just read the copy of the book you have, and follow along in the annotation by line and page number. Maybe in 20 years when the project is finished someone will print it or work it up as an ebook.