#lolita 1955

[contextmatters]

I need to read more classics but I feel like they're so hit or miss; The Invisible Man was so fun to read and I do really enjoy Lolita, but I tried to read To Kill A Mockingbird and The Color Purple and just couldn't get into it.

When I have spare time and have finished Lolita, I will probably try to read Frankenstein or Dracula. Also maybe The Virgin Suicides or The Bell Jar.

#i fucking love reading!!!!! #lolita 1955 #the invisible man 1897 #guys. i fucking love books.

[sopheadraws]

At their core, Lolita and The Silence of the Lambs are both psychological character studies, and they're intrinsically linked in my mind.

#this is exclusively about the novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Thomas Harrison #I have not watched any of the film adaptations #lolita novel #lolita 1955 #the silence of the lambs #tsotl #reading #textpost #philosophie of mind

[kingproteus]

Just finished Lolita recently, and the final essay by Nabokov about the publication process of the book was so fucking insane I had to share it

Like please I feel like I’m the only person who’s seen this

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(TEXT ID BEGINS) Some of the reactions were very amusing: one reader suggested that his firm might consider publication if I turned my Lolita into a twelve-year-old lad, and had him seduced by Humbert, a farmer, in a barn, amidst gaunt and arid surroundings, all this set forth in short, strong, “realistic” sentences (“He acts crazy. We all act crazy, I guess. I guess God acts crazy.” Etc). Although everyone should know that— (TEXT ID ENDS)

#Nabokov WHAT??? #WHO TOLD YOU THAT #WHAT #Lolita #vladimir nabokov #Lolita 1955 #Call me By Your Name Vladimir’s Version

[thriftedspacesuit]

some of you need to read Lolita and just like. think about how it makes you feel reading it. how you think the narrator Humbert wants you to feel and how that differs from what the author's intended emotional response might be. think about the ways Humbert excuses his behavior, glorifies it, lies, and see if you can think of any instances in real life when people have used the same rhetorical devices or logic. ponder the tragedy of Dolores' life and sit with those feelings and let yourself be sad.

then maybe stop calling ppl pedos irl for engaging with complex topics in fiction idk

#lolita (1955) #tw csa mention

[saintkevorkian]

only the most myopic minds reading through blind eyes could find Lolita titillating (--the novel; no comment in re film I’ve never seen)

the plot summary on this page doesn’t mention Valeria at all, but that’s one of the most important pre-Ramsdale anecdotes; she’s ‘Humbert’s’ first wife who behaves like a small child & eventually leaves him for a Russian-macho cab driver whose diminution of her agency as an independent adult seems only fitting in light of her behaviour. To wit, the story of Dolores is preceded by a grotesque of adults playing at this ~lolicon dynamic. Their humiliating and contemptible end, as subjects in some collective where they’re to crawl about on hands and knees eating bananas, gives ‘Humbert’ a laugh from prison.

Q, the rival nonce, is only firmed up as a character in the scene of his own murder. He’s pissed as a drunken newt & very inelegant.

But perhaps these erotic readers are aspiring to abase themselves.

On the subject of grievous misreadings of this book, the only--but only--sexist portrayal in the entire novel is Rita. People insulted by judgements ‘Humbert’ makes about women’s looks ought probably to re-evaluate the circumstances in which they repose confidence in others’ opinions

#humbert is on the point of nervous collapse before he moves to ramsdale #one might accuse the novel of optimism; even the most depraved character is taxed by an incessant internal tribunal for his crimes #but however one approaches there's just nothing appealing. the puffed-up humbert even sees himself as a figure of fun #(trying and failing to disguise self-contempt) #nabokov's lolita (1955)

[honeysurge]

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1955

#humbert humbert #love #Lolita #literature #bookblr #study bar #dark academic aesthetic #Vladimir Nabokov #1955

[crying-in-prada]

you have to be an artist or a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs- the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone- the deadly little demon among the rest.

- vladimir nabokov, lolita 1955

[landothemuppet]

WILD CHERRY AND THE PAPAYA FLIRT (LN4) part one

pairing: lando norris x onlyfan!reader

summary: lando norris indeed goes on OF and being a fan of a certain girl.

content warnings: onlyfan mentionned, suggestive content, disgusting men comments, mention of sugar daddies/baby

author's note: okayyyy well, I have to say that those rumors about Lando really helped me to right this first part. I think it would be two short part, maybe three. I hope you will enjoy this, please be kind to me.

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gossipwags it seems like our national Lando Norris loves to like some sulfurous instagram account those days. Lando's parasocials are wild and non-reciprocal on this account. (@)yourinstagram is a faceless instagram account with a red aesthetic (seem our papaya boy likes kinda a Ferrari girl), with some pretty implicit content. Also, she seems to have a link on her profile leading to an OF paid page. What do you think?

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#ln4 #lando norris #lando norris smau #lando norris x reader #lando norris fic #lando norris fanfic

[contextmatters]

Sometimes Lolita is so unserious because for as horrific as Humbert Humbert is why is he telling me how hot and sexy he is every other chapter.

#lolita 1955 #humbert humbert hate club

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#lolita #vladimir nabokov #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[haveyoureadthispoll]

#polls #book: lolita #author: vladimr nabokov #genre: classics #year: 1950s

[doloresdisparue]

“Lolita isn’t a perverse young girl. She’s a poor child who has been debauched and whose senses never stir under the caresses of the foul Humbert Humbert, whom she asks once, “how long did [he] think we were going to live in stuffy cabins, doing filthy things together…?” But to reply to your question: no, its success doesn’t annoy me, I am not like Conan Doyle, who out of snobbery or simple stupidity preferred to be known as the author of The Great Boer War, which he thought superior to his Sherlock Holmes.

It is equally interesting to dwell, as journalists say, on the problem of the inept degradation that the character of the nymphet Lolita, whom I invented in 1955, has undergone in the mind of the broad public. Not only has the perversity of this poor child been grotesquely exaggerated, but her physical appearance, her age, everything has been transformed by the illustrations in foreign publications. Girls of eighteen or more, sidewalk kittens, cheap models, or simple long-legged criminals, are baptized “nymphets” or “Lolitas” in news stories in magazines in Italy, France, Germany, etc.; and the covers of translations, Turkish or Arab, reach the height of ineptitude when they feature a young woman with opulent contours and a blond mane imagined by boobies who have never read my book.

In reality Lolita is a little girl of twelve, whereas Humbert Humbert is a mature man, and it’s the abyss between his age and that of the little girl that produces the vacuum, the vertigo, the seduction of mortal danger. Secondly, it’s the imagination of the sad satyr that makes a magic creature of this little American schoolgirl, as banal and normal in her way as the poet manqué Humbert is in his. Outside the maniacal gaze of Humbert there is no nymphet. Lolita the nymphet exists only through the obsession that destroys Humbert. Here’s an essential aspect of a unique book that has been betrayed by a factitious popularity.”

- Vladimir Nabokov in an Interview with Bernard Pivot for Apostrophes (1975)

#vladimir nabokov #dolores haze #im reading collected interviews rn and he says this over and over and over again #and no one ever listened #lolita novel

[balladofsallyrose]

Dennis Hopper's collection of owned and gifted books (a few are listed under the cut)

Islands in the Stream (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970)

Magic (Delacorte Press, 1976)

Sneaky People (Simon and Schuster, 1975)

Strange Peaches (Harper's Magazine Press, 1972)

I Didn't Know I Would Live So Long (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973)

Baby Breakdown (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1970)

37 (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970)

Presences: A Text for Marisol (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970)

Little Prayers for Little Lips, The Book of Tao, The Bhagavadgita or The Song Divine, and Gems and Their Occult Power.

Lolita (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955)

The Dramas of Kansas (John F. Higgins, 1915)

Joy of Cooking (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1974) 

The Neurotic: His Inner and Outer Worlds (First edition, Citadel Press, 1954)

Out of My Mind: An Autobiography (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997)

The Savage Mind (University of Chicago Press, 1966)

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1974)

The Documents of 20th Century Art: Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (Viking Press, 1971)

The Portable Dorothy Parker, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, I Ching, and How to Make Love to a Man.

John Steinbeck's East of Eden (Bantam, 1962)

James Dean: The Mutant King (Straight Arrow Books, 1974) by David Dalton

The Moviegoer (The Noonday Press, 1971)

 Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (City Light Books, 1974)

Narcotics Nature's Dangerous Gifts (A Delta Book, 1973)

The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Dover Publications, 1967)

Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (Oxford University Press, 1969)

Junky (Penguin Books, 1977) by William S. Burroughs

Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler (Harper & Row, 1974)

Alcoholics Anonymous (Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1976)

Skrebneski Portraits - A Matter of Record, Sketchbooks of Paolo Soleri, and High Tide.

Raw Notes (The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2005)

Le Corbusier (Heidi Weber, 1965)

Henry Moore in America (Praeger Publishers, 1973)

Claes Oldenburg (MIT Press, 2012)

Notebooks 1959 1971 (MIT Press, 1972)

A Day in the Country (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985)

Album Celine (Gallimard, 1977)

A Selection of Fifity Works From the Collection of Robert C. Scull (Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. 1973)

Collage A Complete Guide for Artists (Watsun-Guptill Publications, 1970)

The Fifties Aspects of Painting in New York (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980)

A Bottle of Notes and Some Voyages (Rizzoli International Publications, 1988)

All Color Book of Art Nouveau (Octopus Books, 1974)

A Colorslide Tour of The Louvre Paris (Panorama, 1960)

Dear Dead Days (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1959)

Woman (Aidan Ellis Publishing Limited, 1972)

The Arts and Man ( UNESCO, 1969)

Murals From the Han to the Tang (Foreign Languages Press, 1974)

A (Grove Press Inc., 1968)

Andy Warhol's Index Book (Random House, 1967)

Voices (A Big Table Book, 1969)

Another Country (A Dell Book, circa 1960s)

On The Road (Signet, circa 1980s) 

#dennis hopper

[kneadingwater]

2023 faves

albums:

joanna newsom's entire discography <3

no thank you (2022) by little simz

the land is inhospitable & so are we (2023) by mitski

the record (2023) by boygenius

bewitched (2023) by laufey

books:

the waves (1931) by virginia woolf

lolita (1955) by vladimir nabokov

the dispossessed (1974) by ursula k. le guin

just above my head (1978) by james baldwin

beloved (1987) by toni morrison

movies:

bicycle thieves (1948) dir. vittorio de sica

late spring (1949) dir. yasujiro ozu

secrets & lies (1996) dir. mike leigh

aftersun (2022) dir. charlotte wells

past lives (2023) dir. celine song

*honorable mention to about elly (2009) dir. asghar farhadi

tagging 23 mutuals for 2023, but feel free to do this whether i tagged u or not :)

@bichopalo, @bymine, @cartoonpeoplemp3, @cheruib, @clementineoil, @engulfes, @imkindatheman, @lesbianjonimitchell, @lynchiangf, @marusyenka, @mothprincess, @motifcollector, @mumintroll, @murderballadeer, @nevergoesout, @sapokanikan, @schalotte, @something2believe, @soulmvtes, @vlindervin7, @weyesbloodgf, @weirdgirlification, @zaubermaerchen

#my post

[kickmebare]

“She was all rose and honey, dressed in her brightest gingham, with a pattern of little red apples, and her arms and legs were of a deep golden brown, with scratches like tiny dotted lines of coagulated rubies, and the ribbed cuffs of her white socks were turned down at the remembered level, and because of her childish gait, or because I had memorized her as always wearing heelless shoes, her saddle oxfords looked somehow too large and too high-heeled for her.” - Lolita, 1955

#upload #photos #flickr #mine #digicam #digital photos #digital diary #ootd #gingham #fashion #apples #lolita #visual archive #aesthetic #kickmebare

[angeloftheodd]

PSA: A Survivor Could’ve Written Lolita. In Lolita, Dolores Haze experiences some of the trauma due to CSA that Vladimir Nabokov (the author) supposedly experienced in his lifetime.

TW: CSA, abuse, corrupt adults, survivor shaming, slut shaming

Stop shaming people for reading and enjoying Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, especially survivors of CSA. Stop shaming people for connecting with and relating to Dolores Haze through fashion, aesthetics, art, literature, poetry, etc. as a coping mechanism or style choice. It’s alleged and widely speculated that Nabokov was a CSA survivor. Some of what Dolores Haze’s experiences in the book is said to reflect his lived experience/trauma with CSA. Let us celebrate Dolores Haze in peace.

Yes, it’s been largely speculated (and agreed upon) that the tragic case of Sally Horner inspired Lolita, but some people today think Nabokov’s own lived experience likely impacted the story too. Dolores Haze is a tragic figure because of what she goes through in the novel and what she most likely represented in the context of Nabokov’s life and beyond. Her resilience, style, and attitude shine through all of it, which is part of why she’s such a literary and fashion icon today.

Some of the abuse Dolores Haze experiences at the hands of Humbert Humbert also describes what Nabokov’s Uncle Ruka allegedly did to him. In fact, there is an instance of CSA in Lolita that reads as eerily similar to what Nabokov supposedly went through as a child at the hands of his uncle. In Lolita, Humbert Humbert assaults/violates Dolores Haze while she’s sitting on his lap, which sounds very similar to what Nabokov’s Uncle Ruka is said to have done to him. I’ve also read that Nabokov’s parents basically ignored it because Uncle Ruka was set to leave a substantial inheritance once he died.

To be clear: It’s never been outright “proven” by any direct evidence that Nabokov’s Uncle Ruka victimized him. Nonetheless, a lot of people suspect this to be the case based on what they’ve learned about his life and from his writings. In fact, there’s an entire scholarly book called Solving Nabokov’s Lolita Riddle by Joanne Morgan for anyone who’s interested in reading a deep dive about it.

Let’s be real: If Vladimir Nabokov had spoken candidly about his experience with being victimized by his uncle, society would have undoubtedly shamed him. Society shamed Sally Horner because an old man pretending to be an FBI agent abducted her as a child. Society continues to shame Dolores Haze by blaming her for what happened to her as well based on popular misconceptions and blatant misreadings of Lolita. The film adaptations of Lolita only further enforce this fact. Furthermore, Dolores Haze is literally written by a survivor, yet no one ever mentions that when they discuss Lolita. The fact that there’s even a chance that Vladimir Nabokov might’ve written Lolita as a survivor needs to become part of the larger discourse surrounding Lolita.

Like I said, Dolores Haze has become a literary and fashion icon. She has inspires many people (including survivors), and that’s part of why nymphet fashion is a thing. Nymphet fashion helps me express myself creatively through fashion and practice self-care. I call myself a doelette because I specifically relate to Dolores Haze as a survivor. As such, she is often the inspiration for my fashion, aesthetics, and writing connected to my processing of and healing from trauma. I don’t deserve the hate I get for this.

Once again: Let us celebrate Dolores Haze in peace.

📸 The first Lolita cover (1955) - Wikimedia Commons

#lolita by vladimir nabokov #lolita aesthetic #loleetah #loleeta #nymphetfashion #nymphett #nymphett fashion #dollette #doelette #doelet #nymphcore #nymph aesthetic