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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The Story of 12 Year Old Nymphet "Lolita"



Lolita is a slang term for a seductive, sexually attractive, or sexually precocious young girl.

The story of "Lolita" describes the intimate relationship of a man in his 50's with a 12 year old girl described as a "Nymphet" .

A nymphet is seen to be a sexually precocious, attractive girl, and was notably used by French author Pierre de Ronsard, and popularised by Vladimir Nabokov in the novel Lolita. In Lolita, protagonist Humbert Humbert uses it to describe the 9-14-year-old girls to whom he is attracted. In today's popular press the term is sometimes applied to women in their late teens or early twenties.

Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, later translated by the author into Russian and published in 1958 in New York.

The novel is both internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the book's narrator and protagonist, Humbert Humbert, becoming obsessed with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze.

After its publication, Lolita attained a classic status, becoming one of the best known and most controversial examples of 20th century literature.

The name "Lolita" has entered pop culture to describe a sexually precocious young girl.

The novel has been adapted to film twice, once in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick starring James Mason as Humbert Humbert, with Sue Lyon as Lolita,(she was 14 - he 40 something) and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, starring Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert, and Dominique Swain as Lolita.



Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

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