Lolita blazes, however, with a perversity of a most original kind. But there is not a single obscene term in Lolita, and aficionados of erotica are likely to find it a dud. The novel's scandal-tinted history and its subject-the affair between a middle-aged sexual pervert and a twelve-year-old girl-inevitably conjure up expectations of pornography. Customs office and heralded by ovations from writers, professors, and critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Here it is at last, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (Putnam, $5.00)-first issued in 1955 by an unorthodox Paris press after being rejected by a string of American publishers banned by the French government, presumably out of solicitude for immature English-speaking readers (the ban was later quashed by the French High Court) pronounced unobjectionable by that blue-nosed body, the U.
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