In 1955, American writer Vladimir Nabokov published a novel Lolita. The story describes that a middle-aged
professor Humbert falls love painstakingly with his landlord’s daughter Lolita. His crazy love to this 12 years old girl leaded him into a self-destroyed result. Because of its controversial topic and subject matter , which focus on Incest and Pedophilia encountered a broad taboo from society. So, although Navokov’s novel goes around the world but gets a drastic debate in the same time. In France, the novel was banned in a short period; And it didn’t be permitted to publish untill 1958. Even, it is still in the list of illegal books to 1964.
But nobody could deny that the greatest affection of the novel in the past decades. It used to get a series awards, for example, NewYork public labrary endued it The Landmarks of modern literature of the award of Books of the century in 1995. It also got the forth award of Hundreds Great English novel of the twenty century of American Blue Light bookshop in 1998. The word “Lolita” even was wroted in dictionary to describe the sexy prematuried girl. “Lolita” has extiensed a phinomina, a norbidity.
Another populor explanation is that Lolita is not only a pure sexual novel. It alludes that the traditional Elite
Culture, which
standed for Europ, was submitting to the modern populor culture, which standed for American. Or the old European culture are trying in vain to rebound through persuading the young American culture.