Lolita

Resumen del libro

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.

Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee.

Ta.'Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants.

Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas (Barcelona, 1939) es profesor investigador de Literatura Española y Latinoamericana de la Universidad de Westmins ter de Londres, ciudad en la que reside desde hace más de treinta años. Además de su recono cida faceta de crítico literario en España y Améri ca Latina, ha traducido, entre otros, a Cesare Pa vese, Djuna Barnes, Carson McCullers y Robert Coover, es autor de la antología de cuentos espa ñoles contemporáneos x{0026}lt;em The Origins of Desirex{0026}lt;/em (Londres, 1993) y de las colecciones de poemas x{0026}lt;em El jardín aciagox{0026}lt;/em (Premio Carlos Ortiz, Barcelona, 1985), x{0026}lt;em La casa de la malezax{0026}lt;/em (Barcelona, 1992), x{0026}lt;em En el bosque de Celiax{0026}lt;/em (Altea, 1995; México, 1998), y x{0026}lt;em Los espejos del marx{0026}lt;/em (Tenerife, 1998).x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Foto Alina López Cámarax{0026}lt;/p