Awe and exhilarationalong with heartbreak and mordant witabound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert.
Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on lovelove as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.