It's the pseudonym used by the lecherous middle-aged protagonist of Nabokov's novel "Lolita"
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Vladimir Nabokov Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  Best known as the author of Lolita, the scandalous 1950s novel about an underage ... Vladimir Nabokov was much more than a chronicler of lecherous professors. ... He began writing under the pseudonym "V. Sirin," selling stories, poems and ... a pompous middle-aged professor who is seduced by a 12-year-old schoolgirl.
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The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov, Paperback | Barnes & Noble  Aug 13, 1991 ... As the story of a middle-aged man's fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls .... Here it refers to the lecherous, ironic, middle-aged protagonist who woos an ... The Enchanter is entertaining independent of its Lolita connection. ... More's the pity then that Dmitri Nabokov has used the occasion to write an...
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Summary/Reviews: The enchanter /  The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. ... The Enchanter is an exquisitely written erotic work that stands on its own great ... Here it refers to the lecherous, ironic, middle-aged protagonist who woos an ... Before he moved to the United States, he wrote under the pseudonym Vladimir Serin.
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists  It's the wrong book, It's the wrong edition, Other ..... When characters make bad decisions, some will view it as stupidity and ..... Lecherous lodger weds lovelorn landlady. ...... Lalita *Lolita as I used to thought*), my Indian friends should know. ...... In this classic novel a middle-aged guy who calls himself Humbert Humbert is a...
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Amazon.ca:Customer Reviews: Lolita (Large Print Edition)  I wonder just how much has changed in 47 years. ... a novel about the raunchy lust of a 40-year-old man for a 12-year-old nymphet, but here is .... us that something is very wrong in the sexual relations between a grown man and a child. .... If you cannot at least see the torment of every character in this book then at least find...
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Free Flashcards about FICTIONAL CHARACTERS - StudyStack  THIS TITLE ORPHAN OF A DICKENS NOVEL IS ADOPTED BY MR. BROWNLOW. ... IN A DOSTOYEVSKY NOVEL, IT'S THE SILLY TITLE NICKNAME OF PRINCE MYSHKIN, WHOSE LOVE FOR 2 WOMEN LEADS TO TRAGEDY... THE IDIOT.
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Vladimir Nabokov | American author | Britannica.com  May 9, 2016 ... Russian-born American novelist and critic, the foremost of the post-1917 migr authors. He wrote in both Russian and English, and his best works, including Lolita ... His first short story had already been published in Berlin in 1924. .... V. Sirin (the literary pseudonym used by Nabokov in those years) was...
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Lolita - Analysis - Dramatica  This also means it has been incorporated into the Dramatica Story Expert ... and her adult, roped-veined narrow hands . . . unkempt armpits . . . hopelessly worn out at .... will improve by her marriage to Humbert, but she is also helplessly in love with him. ..... Again,  . . . that look I cannot exactly describe . . . an expression of...
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'The Long Island Lolita' - Newsweek  Jun 14, 1992 ... From Manhattan to Montauk, the tabloids were running headlines like LONG ISLAND LOLITA and AMY'S HORNY HITMAN. And Joey, with a lot...
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Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), by Stacy Schiff - The Pulitzer Prizes  The 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography or Autobiography ... and the woman to whom the author of Lolita was married for fifty-two years, who carried on his...
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The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated - Amazon.com  Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Annotated Lolita: Revised and ... You begin by reading the text of the novel straight through one time without ... Humbert's psychology, especially towards the end, his infatuation and his .... Nabokov did the unthinkable back then, (wich is all the rage now nearly half a...
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Re: Lolita Note: The Poes of Peterburg (fwd) - LISTSERV 16.0 ...  <snip> > John Some correction/clarification of the above: although VN's city ... named after the Russian one ("by a railroad official for his boyhood home," Funk...
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Amazon.ca:Customer Reviews: Lolita  To say the non-stop use of the words "nymphet" and "pubescent" on every single page ... I have read a fair amount of novels about young girls who seduce adult men ... Humbert, the protagonist, is a very tormented man. .... After all, it is a bit grotesque to think that a 12 year old girl is the object of a grown man's obsession.
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Lolita - From Nabokov's Novel (1955) to Kubrick's Film (1962) to ...  Nov 5, 2000 ... Films that come from novels (not necessarily from plays or short stories) ... Nabokov's philosophy of nymphets, young girls with daemonic qualities, ... looks grandfatherly to Sue Lyon's Lolita (Lyon was fourteen, he was fifty three); ... has an actual twelve-year-old (Dominique Swain) play the role of Lolita.
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Speak of the Devil - TV Tropes  The Speak of the Devil trope as used in popular culture. ... Some people (  ... as with Satan, who may be called "Old Nick" or "Mister Scratch" (or Louis Cypher). ... just in case they're listening anyway, as with The Fair Folk, because you do not ... If saying the villain's name doesn't necessarily summon him, but may simply...
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Free Flashcards about AUTHORS - StudyStack  IN 1980 THIS AUTHOR HAD HIS AGENT SMILEY, FACE HIS KGB NEMESIS, KARLA, JOHN LE CARRE. THIS AUTHOR OF "THE METAMORPHOSIS" FELT...
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Free Flashcards about PLACE NAMES - StudyStack  IN THE 1950S, THIS TEXAS TOWN CONSIDERED CHANGING ITS NAME, SO AS NOT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE NABOKOV NOVEL, LOLITA.
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Invitation to a Beheading | novel by Nabokov | Britannica.com  Dec 7, 2015 ... Invitation to a Beheading, anti-utopian novel by Vladimir Nabokov, published serially ... novelist and critic, the foremost of the post-1917 migr authors. ... his best works, including Lolita (1955), feature stylish, intricate literary.
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Emily May (The United Kingdom)'s review of Lolita - Goodreads  Humbert is not a reliable narrator, his declaration that Lolita was responsible for ... Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. ..... Love in its essence is obsessive, and many of us get love sick. .... If you were to take the point of view of Lolita, I am sure she would have her own story to tell, but one we cannot begin to speculate.
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited - Dictionary definition ...  Such pranks and deliberate red herrings from an author who adored chess, elaborate .... Well liked by peasants in the areas around his St. Petersburg estates, ... In these chapters, Nabokov remembers and muses upon the family and its estates and ... Much of the memoir is devoted to probing Nabokov's childhood because...