Lolita
Nabokov creates new words and organizes others into phrases that were likely never uttered before.
Nabokov creates new words and organizes others into phrases that were likely never uttered before.
The story cycle’s richly envisioned, multi-layered scenario, and Wolfe’s ability to unsettle with playful and obscure language, make it terrifically memorable.
piecing together these fractured thoughts imparts more than the family melodrama that provoked them.
By presenting the journey from varying perspectives, the circuitous story weaves a robust, if messy, emotional tapestry.
Mankind does not understand itself deeply, and yet we persist in our investigations into the mysterious and risk being overwhelmed by things we can’t comprehend.
The devil does not have to emanate from hell and stalk you specifically; evil can live behind the face of each person you meet.