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[[File:Lolita-3486989.jpg|thumb|300px]]▼
▲[[File:Lolita-3486989.jpg|thumb|300px|The novel]]
{{quote|''Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.''}}▼
[[File:Lolita (1962 film poster).jpg|thumb|300px|The Kubrick film]]
[[File:Blanche Baker and Donald Sutherland in Lolita rehearsal.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[w:Lolita (play)|1981 Broadway play]]]]
▲{{quote|''"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul."''}}
''[[Lolita]]'' is a 1955 novel written by [[Vladimir Nabokov]], about the relationship between erudite pedophile Humbert Humbert and his stepdaughter/kidnappee Dolores Haze. The action takes place between 1947 and 1952. Chock-full of convoluted wordplay, multilingual puns, and allusions to everything from entomology to [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. Originally written in English and set in the US, but had to be published in France as pornography because no one else would touch it. Nabokov himself pointed out that this is probably the main reason why parents [[Never Live It Down|don't name their daughters "Lolita" any more]].▼
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This is where we get the terms "Lolita Complex" or "[[Lolicon]]" in Japan, and the slang term "lolita", meaning a sexually attractive and/or promiscuous young girl.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Humbert Humbert in spades. There's at least one moment in the book (which also turns up in some form in the movie adaptations) in which he contemplates killing his wife and how easily he could get away with it, but finds that he really is just too nice to do it. In some ways, this actually makes him even ''worse'', and the mid-story [[Diabolus Ex Machina]] that puts her out of his way that much more bitterly ironic. The unabridged audio book version, read by [[Jeremy Irons]], carries this further - Irons' reading over twelve hours almost makes the character's actions excusable.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Humbert Humbert again. He does show a streak of genuine guilt from time to time in his narrative and try to make up--in part--for what he's done to Lolita.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Oddly, given his crimes and Nabokov's own opinion toward him, Humbert could count for this, being one of a number of Nabokov protagonists who like the author himself, is a highly cultured
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: [[Invoked]] by the narrator when he tells that he introduced himself to Charlotte as [[Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar]] H. Humbert.
* [[Bear Trap Bed]]: Film only.
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