Lolita: Creeper Status

I have decided to read and analyze Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov for my paper. I chose this book because it sounded like a unique, dark topic that would provide many interesting topics to focus on. The back cover of my copy especially intrigued me during the period of time I was deciding between Lolita, Love in the Time of Cholera, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The back cover drew me in with its brief allusions to obsession, devouring, heartbreak and doomed passion and the novel’s discussion of the many good and evil effects of love.

I am a little more than half way through the novel at this point, just entering Part II. My initial reaction was one of disturbance but intrigue, and these feelings only grow as I delve further into its contents. Obviously Humbert Humbert is a troubled man with endless love and amazement for nymphets, especially his own. However, I think there is also a lot to be said about his lack of real human connection. Though his life revolves around his obsession with his connection with his little nymphet Lolita, he lacks any real appreciation for any of the other human life in his daily existence or past and shows little emotion in regard to the loss of past seemingly-important individuals in his life. Also, through the relationship between Lolita and Humbert, Nabokov explores the nature and limitations (or lack of thereof) of desire and obsession. Obviously, I do not know exactly what I am talking about, just a few ideas, but I have entire section to finish and I hear it the more interesting and “action-packed” of the two. (276)