Beauty - Nabokov's Lolita

from The Wisdom Of · host The Wisdom of With Kristian Urstad by Avant-Garde Productions

The 1955 novel Lolita was written by the Russian American writer Vladimir Nabokov. The story’s about a European middle aged professor, Humbert, who’s obsessed with a 12 year old American girl, Dolores, whom he nicknames Lolita. In this episode we explore themes like beauty, desire and youth.

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