![]() ![]() Nabokov wrote Lolita partly to demonstrate the effects of enchanting and persuasive rhetorical skills on not just the characters in the book but the reader as well. He also benefited from the knowledge of the American landscape afforded him by his pursuit of butterflies through fifty-fix states in the United States. He took bus rides with school children to help him understand how they talked, followed news stories involving pedophilia, and read case studies on the subject. However, since he was setting the book in a land he emigrated to and was not very familiar with, he started with some research. Nabokov built on themes he abandoned in an earlier novella, The Enchanter, to form Lolita. ![]() Lolita is Vladimir Nabokov’s most popular and successful work.
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