Saturday, June 2, 2007

The Pimping of Nabokov

Who made Lolita famous?

According to a rare book dealer-turned author, it was Graham Greene.

it was Greene who brought Lolita to the notice of a reading public when he chose it as his best book of the year in 1955. Lolita had been fairly obscure till then since it had been published by Maurice Girodias in Paris, whose Obelisk Press usually published classy pornography. (emphasis added)
In case you were wondering.

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