"The only convincing love story of our century." —Vanity Fair
"Lolita
blazes with a perversity of a most original kind. For Mr. Nabokov has
distilled from his shocking material hundred-proof intellectual farce…Lolita
seems an assertion of the power of the comic spirit to wrest delight
and truth from the most outlandish materials. It is one of the funniest
serious novels I have ever read; and the vision of its abominable hero,
who never deludes or excuses himself, brings into grotesque relief the
cant, the vulgarity, and the hypocritical conventions that pervade the
human comedy." —Atlantic Monthly
"Intensely lyrical and wildly funny." —Time
"The
conjunction of a sense of humor with a sense of horror [results in]
satire of a very special kind, in which vice or folly is regarded not
so much with scorn as with profound dismay and a measure of tragic
sympathy…The reciprocal flow of irony gives to both the characters and
their surroundings the peculiar intensity of significance that attends
the highest art." —The New Yorker
"Lolita
is an authentic work of art which compels our immediate response and
serious reflection–a revealing and indispensable comedy of horrors." —San Francisco Chronicle
