Lolita (Edición en español)

Lolita, the most famous and controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov, tells the story of forty-something Humbert Humbert's devouring obsession with the nymphet Dolores Haze. Tenderness and fascination --as well as sadness and biting humor-- fill its pages, but it is, above all, a meditation on love--love as abuse and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 11/10/2009
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.24w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780307474674
ISBN10: 0307474674
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Coming of Age

About the Author
Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. His family fled to Crimea in 1917 during the Bolshevik Revolution, and later to Europe. Nabokov studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in French and Russian literature in 1922. He lived in Berlin and Paris for the next two decades, writing prolifically under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940 he moved to the United States where he achieved fame and prestige as a novelist, poet, critic and translator, while also working as a professor of Russian, creative writing and literature at Stanford, Wellesley, Cornell and Harvard universities. The monumental success of his novel Lolita (1955) allowed him to leave teaching and dedicate himself fully to writing. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.