He is already, God help him, a classic" (Critic Conrad Brenner, in 1958). He may be the most important writer now going in this country. Lolita is probably the best fiction to come out of this country (so to speak) since Faulkner's burst in the thirties. "Vladimir Nabokov is an artist of the first rank, a writer in the great tradition. WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE: From the Bureau Littéraire Clairouin, Nabokov's literary agency who was instrumental in its publication. FIRST EDITION of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. He turned to the Olympia Press in Paris, then notorious for essentially publishing pornography, for the first publication of his famous novel. The multi-lingual Nabokov (he grew up speaking Russian, English and French at home) finished Lolita in 1953, but it was rejected by all the major American publishers for fear that its subject matter would prove too controversial. Its path to publication did not run smooth, and there are many different editions and translations worthy of the collector's attention.ġ955: The Olympia Press Two-Volume First Edition Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most-celebrated and most-notorious novels of the twentieth century.
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