"I was thinking of bison and angels, of the secrets of the paint, of the sonnets of the prophets, of the sanctuary of art. She can fade, she can wither, but as soon as I look at her, all kinds of tenderness will come to my heart. ”
In the sunny, grassy garden, Humbert suddenly felt a flash in his eyes, and a dizzying wave of ecstasy surged into his heart. In this way, he fell into love.
Meeting the youthful, seductive Lolita, he instantly changes his decision and rents the room he did not intend to stay in for long.
A bold and forbidden adventure begins.
This is the most gorgeous and beautiful scene in the widely circulated work of russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita", and has become a classic in the minds of countless readers and concerns.
After a long goodbye reunion a few years later, lolita in front of her is long gone, pale, bloated, and still pregnant with other people's flesh and bones. All this made Humbert stunned and distressed, but it did not affect his love for her.
"She can fade, she can wither, but as soon as I look at her, all kinds of tenderness will come to my heart."
But Lolita again rejected him. He repeatedly confirmed that she was unmoved. Even if she came back many times, she still chose not to love him.
Everyone has their own subjective world, which is not the same as others.
Lolita is Humbert's whole world, and he loves madly paranoid and humble. And Humbert was just a lone passer-by in Lolita's life.
The sharp conflict between literature and morality has triggered unprecedented discussion and controversy, but to a certain extent, it has increased the vitality of the work.
By boldly telling the forbidden love between middle-aged men and girls, the writer profoundly expresses the eternity and nothingness in the world of love.
Although in the works, the writer's view of love challenges the mundane, full of desire, and even sin.
But outside of his work, Nabokov is known for writing half a century of love letters to his wife Vera.
In the 52-year marriage, his wife dedicated himself to his immortal literary career, and he also wrote the immortal love myth of real life in a romantic and poetic way.
"Lolita" constructs an overly ideal love country in the form of tragedy, which is more suitable for interpretation from a literary and artistic perspective.
What is even more admirable is that the writer has found a rational trade-off and balance between reality and ideals.
Love can be fleeting or immortal.
Although in the spiritual world, love and beauty can be pursued almost paranoidly, in real life, morality and responsibility are unshirkable obligations.
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