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Lolita in the afterlife : on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century
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- ISBN: 9781984898838
- ISBN: 1984898833
- ISBN: 9781984898845
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xxxvii, 413 pages ; 21 cm - Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Vintage Books original" -- title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Witness for the defense: my father and Lolita / Emily Mortimer -- Véra and Lo / Stacy Schiff -- On the road with Humbert and Lolita / Ian Frazier -- Ugly beautiful / Roxane Gay -- Badge of honor / Susan Choi -- Watching the detective / Laura Lippman -- Lolita diary / Alexander Chee -- Delectatio Morosa / Lauren Groff -- Lolita, #MeToo, and myself / Morgan Jerkins -- Lolita, Chamonix, France, 2018 / Andre Dubus III -- The showgirl who discovered Lolita / Sarah Weinman -- Fashion's Lolita; fragile, subversive, and a paean to white femininity / Robin Givhan -- Lolita and the Empathetic Imagination / Jim Shepard -- How Lolita freed me from my own Humbert / Bindu Bansinath -- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury / Christina Baker Kline -- Charmed / Victor LaValle -- They stay the same age / Sloane Crosley -- Dear Sugar / Cheryl Strayed -- What we talk about when we talk about Lolita / Lila Azam Zanganeh -- Nabokov's rocking chair: Lolita at the movies / Tom Bissell -- Lo and behold / Jill Kargman -- Acquiring Lolita's language / Aleksandar Hemon -- Charlotte's complaint / Jessica Shattuck -- Lolita in the time of trigger warnings / Erika L. Sánchez -- Maison Nymphette / Kate Elizabeth Russell -- A living story of Lolita in Iraq / Zainab Salbi -- The lollipop room / Kira von Eichel -- The anti-monster / Claire Dederer -- Lolita in lockdown / Dani Shapiro -- I cannot get out said the starling / Mary Gaitskill. |
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| Subject: | Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1899-1977 Lolita (Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich) Lolita (Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich) |
| Genre: | Literary criticism. Essays. Literary criticism. Essays. |
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Lolita in the Afterlife : On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
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Lolita in the Afterlife : On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century
A vibrant collection of sharp and essential modern pieces on Vladimir Nabokov's perennially provocative book-with original contributions from a stellar cast of prominent twenty-first century writers. In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and bestsellerdom. More than sixty years later, this phenomenal novel generates as much buzz as it did when originally published. Central to countless issues at the forefront of our national discourse-art and politics, race and whiteness, gender and power, sexual trauma-Lolita lives on, in an afterlife as blinding as a supernova. Lolita in the Afterlife is edited by the daughter of Lolita's original publisher in America. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY Robin Givhan. Aleksandar Hemon. Jim Shepard. Emily Mortimer. Laura Lippman. Erika L. Sanchez. Sarah Weinman. Andre Dubus III. Mary Gaitskill. Zainab Salbi. Christina Baker Kline. Ian Frazier. Cheryl Strayed. Sloane Crosley. Victor LaValle. Jill Kargman. Lila Azam Zanganeh. Roxane Gay. Claire Dederer. Jessica Shattuck. Stacy Schiff. Susan Choi. Kate Elizabeth Russell. Tom Bissell. Kira Von Eichel. Bindu Bansinath. Dani Shapiro. Alexander Chee. Lauren Groff. Morgan Jerkins
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