Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov • 1955
Devastation Rating
trauma literary fiction injustice philosophical
Our Take
The most beautiful prose in service of the most monstrous narrator. Humbert Humbert is eloquent and utterly without accountability, and Nabokov never lets you forget who is missing from this account. Dolores Haze is a ghost in her own story. The novel knows this. That is its moral seriousness.
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