"Lolita" von Vladimir Nabokov ist ein kontroverser Roman, der die verstörende Beziehung zwischen dem Protagonisten Humbert Humbert, einem gebildeten europäischen Intellektuellen, und der 12-jährigen Dolores Haze, genannt Lolita,...

'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army...

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the...