The novel by V. Nabokov "Lolita": a summary

In this article we will talk about the most scandalous work of Vladimir Nabokov - the novel "Lolita". The brief content of the book will be the main topic for us.

The work was originally written in English and published in 1955. Nabokov himself later translated it into Russian. The work is recognized as one of the best novels of the 20th century. By the way, the first edition of the novel was withdrawn from the publishing house, and the book is banned in France, England and some other countries because of pornographic content.

Lolita: a short summary

The main character of the novel Humbert Humbert is 37 years old, he teaches French literature and has a strange inclination towards girls from 9 to 14 years old, nymphets. The old recollection from childhood became the cause of this desire and forever disgusted him from mature women.

The work is written as a novel-confession, whose author is Humbert, who is in prison. And the events that he describes took place in the summer of 1947. For 10 years before that, he lived in Paris and was married, but his wife left him and fled with her lover. Himbert himself decided after this to move to America. Here he takes in renting a room in the house of Mrs. Charlotte Haze, who has a twelve-year-old daughter by had Dolores-Lo, or Lolita.

Marriage in Charlotte

The summary of the work "Lolita" is replete with descriptions of the passion that the protagonist feels for Lolita. But here comes the moment when the girl is decided to send to the summer camp. At the same time, Charlotte, her mother, writes a letter to Humbert, in which he confesses his love and invites him not to be a tenant, but a roommate. The hero accepts this proposal and marries her, thinking that from that moment nothing will prevent his communication with Lolita.

But then it turns out that Charlotte decided to send Lo to the boarding house, and then - to Beardsley College. All the hopes of Humbert crumble in an instant. Once, when he and Charlotte went for a swim in a forest lake, Humbert almost decided not to drown his wife. But his plans were prevented by the neighbor-artist, who is watching them.

Soon, Charlotte gets a diary of Humbert, where he describes his feelings for Lolita. Scandal is played out. Humbert does not know what to do. Charlotte runs out of the apartment in anger and tears and accidentally gets under the car.

Life with Lolita

During all that happened, she was in the summer camp of Lolita. The summary tells how after the funeral of his wife Humbert takes the girl and tells her that her mother is in the hospital.

Humbert decides to move from one city to another with Lo. He brings the girl to the hotel, all the night he suffers from lust and fear. And in the morning Lolita wakes up and seduces her stepfather herself. It turns out that she is not a virgin.

After that, Humbert tells Lo the truth about her mother. Next year they travel to America, living in hotels and hotels. As a result, the hero decides to take the girl to Beardsley to the east of the country, where she will study at a private gymnasium.

Back on the road

January 1, 1949 celebrates his 14th birthday Lolita. The summary shows us the changes that have taken place with it - it no longer looks like a nymphet, there are a lot of rudeness and curses in its vocabulary. In addition, Luo extorts money from Humbert and stores it. The hero suspects that the girl wants to escape from him.

In the summer of 1949, he takes Lolita out of the gymnasium, begins their new journey. Humbert is tormented by thoughts and suspicions-it seems to him that Lo is cheating on him. Somehow he notices the car following them. The hero can not understand who this is - a private detective or lover of Lolita.

The escape

"Lolita" - a book (a summary is presented in the article) is rather ambiguous. It is very difficult to find heroes and villains, saints and sinners here, which is confirmed by the following episode.

In Elphinstone the girl is seriously ill, she is taken to the hospital. Soon, the health of Humbolt also worsens. Recovering, the hero comes to the hospital for Lolita, but it turns out that on the eve of her already took "uncle".

Lolita disappears from the life of Humbert for three and a half years. At first he was looking for Lo, then almost went insane, met a thirty-year-old Rita, who saved him. Then the year the hero worked at the University of Cantrip. And here in 1953 in New York he receives a letter from Lo. She reports that she has married and is expecting a child. With the husband they are going to Alaska, but before that they need to pay debts, but there is absolutely no money.

History of Luo

Humbert looks for Lolita, who lives in a shack with a deaf husband, a veteran of the war. The girl tells that she was kidnapped by a famous playwright, whom she met while still in the gymnasium. He brought her to the ranch, where drugs, drunkenness, perversion and orgies were waiting for her. Lolita refused to participate, after which she was thrown out into the street. From that moment, hard days began, she was interrupted by penniless earnings, met her future husband, and so was in this terrible place.

Humbert leaves Lolita money - the income from the house that she left from her mother, and goes in search of a playwright.

Decoupling

The novel "Lolita" is coming to an end. The summary of the chapters describes how Humbert found the playwright and after a hard struggle killed him.

This hero begins to write a confession in the hospital for the mentally ill, and then in prison, where he awaits the verdict of the court. However, Humbert did not wait for the decision, dying of a heart attack. And soon after him dies during childbirth and Lolita, her daughter also dies.