Premium Content Humbert Humbert and Cue
By Anonymous - July 24, 2002
"... in the destructive element immerse..."(from Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad)
Through the lens of Humbert Humbert's obsession with la nymphette Lolita, ("Lo-lee-ta... light of my life, fire of my loins..."(9)), Nabokov explores and illuminates the cyclical and ever deepening spiral of human desire. Humbert Humbert, thrown back and forth between…
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