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		Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Lolita.
		Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Characters.
		Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation.
		Lolita (Fictitious character), 1935-1952.
		Memory in literature.
		Nymphets in literature.
		Literature and society.
		Nymphets in literature.

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		Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Lolita.
		Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Characters.
		Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation.
		Lolita (Fictitious character), 1935-1952.
		Memory in literature.
		Nymphets in literature.
		Literature and society.
		Nymphets in literature.


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Lolita in the afterlife : on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century / edited by Jenny Minton Quigley.

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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Lolita.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Characters.

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Lolita (Fictitious character), 1935-1952.

Memory in literature.

Nymphets in literature.

Literature and society.

Nymphets in literature.

9781984898838 (pbk)

xxxvii, 413 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

"A Vintage Books original" -- title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Witness for the defense: my father and Lolita / Emily Mortimer -- Véra and Lo / Stacy Schiff -- On the road with Humbert and Lolita / Ian Frazier -- Ugly beautiful / Roxane Gay -- Badge of honor / Susan Choi -- Watching the detective / Laura Lippman -- Lolita diary / Alexander Chee -- Delectatio Morosa / Lauren Groff -- Lolita, #MeToo, and myself / Morgan Jerkins -- Lolita, Chamonix, France, 2018 / Andre Dubus III -- The showgirl who discovered Lolita / Sarah Weinman -- Fashions Lolita; fragile, subversive, and a paean to white femininity / Robin Givhan -- Lolita and the Empathetic Imagination / Jim Shepard -- How Lolita freed me from my own Humbert / Bindu Bansinath -- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury / Christina Baker Kline -- Charmed / Victor LaValle -- They stay the same age / Sloane Crosley -- Dear Sugar / Cheryl Strayed -- What we talk about when we talk about Lolita / Lila Azam Zanganeh -- Nabokov's rocking chair: Lolita at the movies / Tom Bissell -- Lo and behold / Jill Kargman -- Acquiring Lolitas language / Aleksandar Hemon -- Charlottes complaint / Jessica Shattuck -- Lolita in the time of trigger warnings / Erika L. Sánchez -- Maison Nymphette / Kate Elizabeth Russell -- A living story of Lolita in Iraq / Zainab Salbi -- The lollipop room / Kira von Eichel -- The anti-monster / Claire Dederer -- Lolita in lockdown / Dani Shapiro -- I cannot get out said the starling / Mary Gaitskill.

"A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on the perennially controversial Lolita, by a wide range of celebrated writers, edited by the daughter of Lolita's original publisher. In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy. More than sixty years later, it is more important than ever to discuss this complex novel. Now, having commissioned original contributions by Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Erika Sánchez, Sloane Crosley, Andre Dubus III, Ian Frazier, Lauren Groff, Stacy Schiff, Emily Mortimer, Victor LaValle, and many more, Jenny Minton Quigley examines how we read Lolita today. Lolita both exists in and exemplifies many of the issues at the forefront of our current national discourse: art and politics, race and whiteness, gender and power, sexual trauma. Jenny, the daughter of Walter J. Minton, who published Lolita at G. P. Putnam's Sons after it had been rejected by five other American publishers, brings a unique vantage point to this conversation. In her introduction she tells the amazing true story of the original publication, a risk Walter took despite the very real possibility that he could be prosecuted and go to jail (and which, by the way, included Walter's daring flight through a storm to meet Nabokov and strike the deal). Lolita in the Afterlife is a riveting examination of the bright and dark spell that Nabokov's indelible novel left and still leaves on the cultural landscape. As these prominent writers of the twenty-first century attest, Lolita lives on, in an afterlife as blinding as a supernova."--Publisher.

Literary criticism.

Quigley, Jenny Minton, 1971-

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