Lolito

Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Lolito by Ben Brooks. Lolito by Ben Brooks. I can't wait to see you. Lolito is a love story about a fifteen year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet.

When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking f She's online. When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong? Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly twenty-first century love story. Paperback , pages. Published August 1st by Canongate first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about Lolito , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Aug 06, Blair rated it liked it Shelves: Lolito isn't as controversial, as shocking, as good or as bad as what I've heard and read about it had suggested. It's a story about a year-old schoolboy who has an affair with a year-old woman he meets on the internet.

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Kind of Tampa from the boy's angle, or - as the title suggests - a gender-swapped Lolita. However, Lolito 's treatment of the subject matter is surprisingly tame. The boy in this case is Etgar, a funny and slightly strange teenager who suffers from a catalogue of anxieties.

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Reeling after possibly being cheated on by his girlfriend Alice, he poses as a twentysomething mortgage broker in an online chatroom and gets talking to Macy, who he assumes is in her mid-thirties. Etgar spends the majority of his time trying to escape from his feelings about Alice, and the story builds to a climax no pun intended in which Etgar and Macy agree to meet up in a London hotel.

There's something fascinating about the depiction of youth here and I suppose it's made more interesting - and 'real' - by the author's age he's 21, and his first novel was written and published when he was in his teens. These teenagers are a weirdly contradictory bunch who seem to act like adults but think like much younger children. Etgar is always wanting to hide under his duvet and isn't embarrassed about admitting he loves Disney films and chick flicks, plus most of his sexual fantasies seem to revolve around cuddling and motherly behaviour; yet he and Alice regularly watch violent snuff movies with the sort of bored casual interest that most of us reserve for adverts.

The narrator and his friends seem so comfortable with sex and drugs you'd assume they've been familiar with them for many years Alice has had two abortions already, and she's a year younger than Etgar , but their language and comprehension are stunted. Etgar talks about 'sexing' girls, never 'having sex', refers to the world beyond his house as 'the Outside', and ties himself in knots over Alice's 'betrayal' despite the fact that he regularly fools around with a female friend. He doesn't seem to see the contradiction here, and not because he's a typical Lad who thinks cheating is okay for a guy but not for a girl: This childishness is typical of all the teenage characters, but particularly Etgar, although he's also an intelligent, eccentric and humorous narrator.

While the general concept of 'the internet' is still often used as a gimmick in fiction and many authors haven't yet progressed beyond portraying it as some weird, unknown land, here a constant stream of digital white noise - from Facebook feeds and Google search histories to disturbing YouTube videos and porn - highlights how the teenagers' 'real' lives are inextricably linked with their online existence.

As well as meeting Macy in a chatroom, Etgar receives confirmation of Alice's infidelity by hacking into her Facebook and messaging her best friend. Inane status updates merge with graphic porn video titles, as if to suggest the characters don't really distinguish between the two. It remains unclear whether Macy is aware of Etgar's real age before coming to London, for example, and she certainly isn't portrayed as a predatory character. What you end up with is a sort of twisted coming-of-age story in which Etgar's 'relationship' with Macy is almost an incidental detail.

We see everything through his eyes, and he's far more concerned with losing Alice: Although Etgar and Macy do have sex, it's barely described and isn't actually central to the interaction between them - in fact, it almost seems like an afterthought. There are some issues here I would have preferred to be explored in more detail, something Etgar's limited understanding prevents. I felt it was strongly implied that Macy didn't and couldn't have children, despite claiming she did have them, and this was an intriguing plot thread which was never picked up. The same could be said of Macy's view spoiler [apparently abusive relationship with her husband hide spoiler ] - this initially seemed a bit like a lazy plot device to justify Macy's actions, but the later scenes involving view spoiler [Macy asking Etgar to hit her hide spoiler ] shed a different light on matters, and possibly bring Macy's honesty into question.

Interestingly enough for a novel that's essentially about paedophilia, this was the darkest thing about the story for me. The fact that Macy turns out, in reality, to be a view spoiler [headteacher hide spoiler ] also raises some interesting questions about her intentions and - if indeed she wasn't already aware of Etgar's age - what made her continue with the liaison once she met him.

I was very interested in Macy and it would have been good to see some of this story from her perspective, or an outsider's point of view, but it says a lot about Lolito that that's very much not the point. I'm fascinated by books written by inexperienced authors, which is why I really love reading first novels: Lolito has echoes of The Juliette Society , the debut novel of ex-porn star Sasha Grey, in that it touches on some incredibly interesting, insightful, even brilliant subjects and ideas, but lags and trips up at various points and fails to capitalise on its potential, making it just average as a whole.

I loved the author's spot-on depiction of the combination of boredom, ennui and innocence that characterises the state of being a teenager, and it's this - not the patchy plot - that has left me with a degree of curiosity about his other work. This may not be a brilliant book, but Ben Brooks is definitely one to watch. Apr 13, Alison rated it did not like it.

I can't believe I wasted actual money on this. The writing style was painful, the characters banal and the story excruciatingly poor. It was so ridiculously painfully obviously written by a teenage boy and is quite possibly one of the worst books I've ever had the misfortune to read. View all 5 comments. Etgar infatti, il protagonista, si deprime ascoltando Vanessa Carlton!

Ma che importa della trama e dei personaggi quando abbiamo delle poetiche metafore che ti colpiscono dritto al cuore, come "Dietro agli occhi ha dei cani tristi".

El autor no se anda con florituras: Dec 05, Hayal Perest rated it did not like it. May 12, Kadie Gray rated it liked it. I read it in a day. It was really funny but when I reached the end I was left thinking - Was that it? I had read the whole book, enjoyed the majority but by the end I was left unsatisfied and disappointed. The story seemed to speed up pretty quick and then suddenly end. It's as if the fast forward button had been lodged and Brooks was eager to finish it. This being said it wasn't a bad read. It's funny, it's witty and entertaining.

Diferente a lo que suelo leer. No es un libro que recomiende a todos. Oct 10, Rebecca rated it it was amazing. When I got the book, I was totally excited and had to read it immediately. And it was worth it.

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Honestly, 'Lolito' is an epic book written by an awesome writer. When year-old Etgar finds out that his girlfriend betrayed him and lied to him, he trys to find diversion and signs in an adult chatroom and begins to chat with Macy, a middle-aged housewife. Etgar, being totally screwed up, lonely, finds concolation in this and starts to build up ki When I got the book, I was totally excited and had to read it immediately.

Etgar, being totally screwed up, lonely, finds concolation in this and starts to build up kind of a relationship with Macy, including cyber sex and even a real life meeting. This book blow me over, seriously. Most writers see Humbert as an unreliable narrator and credit Nabokov's powers as an ironist. Critics have further noted that, since the novel is a first person narrative by Humbert, the novel gives very little information about what Lolita is like as a person, that in effect she has been silenced by not being the book's narrator.

Nomi Tamir-Ghez writes "Not only is Lolita's voice silenced, her point of view, the way she sees the situation and feels about it, is rarely mentioned and can be only surmised by the reader It's Lolita as a memory". He concluded that a stage monologue would be truer to the book than any film could possibly be. Clegg sees the novel's non-disclosure of Lolita's feelings as directly linked to the fact that her "real" name is Dolores and only Humbert refers to her as Lolita.

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The human child, the one noticed by non- nymphomaniacs , answers to other names, "Lo", "Lola", "Dolly", and, least alluring of all, "Dolores". The Siren-like Humbert sings a song of himself, to himself, and titles that self and that song "Lolita". To transform Dolores into Lolita, to seal this sad adolescent within his musky self, Humbert must deny her her humanity. In , Iranian expatriate Azar Nafisi published the memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran about a covert women's reading group.

She notes "Because her name is not Lolita, her real name is Dolores which as you know in Latin means dolour, so her real name is associated with sorrow and with anguish and with innocence, while Lolita becomes a sort of light-headed, seductive, and airy name. The Lolita of our novel is both of these at the same time and in our culture here today we only associate it with one aspect of that little girl and the crassest interpretation of her. For Nafisi, the essence of the novel is Humbert's solipsism and his erasure of Lolita's independent identity.

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Yet she does have a past. Despite Humbert's attempts to orphan Lolita by robbing her of her history, that past is still given to us in glimpses. One of the novel's early champions, Lionel Trilling , warned in of the moral difficulty in interpreting a book with so eloquent and so self-deceived a narrator: A minority of critics have accepted Humbert's version of events at face value.

In , Dorothy Parker described the novel as "the engrossing, anguished story of a man, a man of taste and culture, who can love only little girls" and Lolita as "a dreadful little creature, selfish, hard, vulgar, and foul-tempered". This is no pretty theme, but it is one with which social workers, magistrates and psychiatrists are familiar.

In his essay on Stalinism Koba the Dread , Martin Amis proposes that Lolita is an elaborate metaphor for the totalitarianism that destroyed the Russia of Nabokov's childhood though Nabokov states in his afterword that he "[detests] symbols and allegories ". Amis interprets it as a story of tyranny told from the point of view of the tyrant.

Nabokov finished Lolita on 6 December , five years after starting it. Via his translator Doussia Ergaz, it reached Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press , "three-quarters of [whose] list was pornographic trash". Lolita was published in September , as a pair of green paperbacks "swarming with typographical errors".

Eventually, at the very end of , Graham Greene , in the London Sunday Times , called it one of the three best books of The novel then appeared in Danish and Dutch translations. Two editions of a Swedish translation were withdrawn at the author's request. Despite initial trepidation, there was no official response in the U. Putnam's Sons in August The book was into a third printing within days and became the first since Gone with the Wind to sell , copies in its first three weeks.

The novel continues to generate controversy today as modern society has become increasingly aware of the lasting damage created by child sexual abuse.

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In , an entire book was published on the best ways to teach the novel in a college classroom given that "its particular mix of narrative strategies, ornate allusive prose, and troublesome subject matter complicates its presentation to students". Many critics describe Humbert as a rapist , notably Azar Nafisi in her best-selling Reading Lolita in Tehran , [47] though in a survey of critics David Larmour notes that other interpreters of the novel have been reluctant to use that term. Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd denies that it was rape on the grounds that Dolores was not a virgin and seduced Humbert in the morning of their hotel stay.

It bears many similarities to Lolita , but also has significant differences: The theme of hebephilia was already touched on by Nabokov in his short story " A Nursery Tale ", written in Also, in the Laughter in the Dark , Margot Peters is 16 and already had an affair when middle-aged Albinus becomes attracted to her.

In chapter three of the novel The Gift written in Russian in —37 the similar gist of Lolita ' s first chapter is outlined to the protagonist, Fyodor Cherdyntsev, by his landlord Shchyogolev as an idea of a novel he would write "if I only had the time": Shchyogolev says it happened "in reality" to a friend of his; it is made clear to the reader that it concerns himself and his stepdaughter Zina 15 at the time of Shchyogolev's marriage to her mother who becomes the love of Fyodor's life.

In April , Nabokov wrote to Edmund Wilson: Nabokov used the title A Kingdom by the Sea in his pseudo-autobiographical novel Look at the Harlequins! In Nabokov's novel Pale Fire , the titular poem by fictional John Shade mentions Hurricane Lolita coming up the American east coast in , and narrator Charles Kinbote in the commentary later in the book notes it, questioning why anyone would have chosen an obscure Spanish nickname for a hurricane.

There were no hurricanes named Lolita that year , but that is the year that Lolita the novel was published in North America. The unfinished novel The Original of Laura , published posthumously, features the character Hubert H. Hubert, an older man preying upon then-child protagonist, Flora. Unlike those of Humbert Humbert in Lolita , Hubert's advances are unsuccessful. The novel abounds in allusions to classical and modern literature. Many are references to Humbert's own favorite poet, Edgar Allan Poe. Humbert Humbert's first love, Annabel Leigh, is named after the "maiden" in the poem " Annabel Lee " by Poe; this poem is alluded to many times in the novel, and its lines are borrowed to describe Humbert's love.

A passage in chapter 11 reuses verbatim Poe's phrase A variant of this line is reprised in the opening of chapter one, which reads In a princedom by the sea. Humbert is not, however, his real name, but a chosen pseudonym. Chapter 26 of Part One contains a parody of Joyce 's stream of consciousness. He even called Carroll the "first Humbert Humbert". In her book, Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin , Joyce Milton claims that a major inspiration for the novel was Charlie Chaplin 's relationship with his second wife, Lita Grey , whose real name was Lillita and is often misstated as Lolita.

Graham Vickers in his book Chasing Lolita: Although Appel's comprehensive Annotated Lolita contains no references to Charlie Chaplin, others have picked up several oblique references to Chaplin's life in Nabokov's book. Lolita's first sexual encounter was with a boy named Charlie Holmes, whom Humbert describes as "the silent When Humbert visits Lolita in a class at her school, he notes a print of the same painting in the classroom.

Delaney's article notes many other parallels as well. The foreword refers to "the monumental decision rendered December 6, by Hon. Woolsey in regard to another, considerably more outspoken book"—that is, the decision in the case United States v. In chapter 35 of Part Two, Humbert's " death sentence " on Quilty parodies the rhythm and use of anaphora in T. Eliot 's poem Ash Wednesday. Many other references to classical and Romantic literature abound, including references to Lord Byron 's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and to the poetry of Laurence Sterne.

In addition to the possible prototypes of Lewis Carroll and Charlie Chaplin mentioned above in Allusions , Alexander Dolinin suggests [59] that the prototype of Lolita was year-old Florence Horner , kidnapped in by year-old mechanic Frank La Salle, who had caught her stealing a five-cent notebook. La Salle traveled with her over various states for 21 months and is believed to have raped her. He claimed that he was an FBI agent and threatened to "turn her in" for the theft and to send her to "a place for girls like you. Had I done to Dolly, perhaps, what Frank Lasalle, a fifty-year-old mechanic, had done to eleven-year-old Sally Horner in ?

German academic Michael Maar 's book The Two Lolitas [60] describes his recent discovery of a German short story titled "Lolita" whose middle-aged narrator describes travelling abroad as a student. He takes a room as a lodger and instantly becomes obsessed with the preteen girl also named Lolita who lives in the same house. Maar has speculated that Nabokov may have had cryptomnesia "hidden memory" while he was composing Lolita during the s.

Maar says that until Nabokov lived in the same section of Berlin as the author, Heinz von Eschwege pen name: Heinz von Lichberg , and was most likely familiar with his work, which was widely available in Germany during Nabokov's time there. Did Nabokov take literary liberties? Nothing of what we admire in Lolita is already to be found in the tale; the former is in no way deducible from the latter.

A Plagiarism" in Harper's Magazine on this story. One of the first things Nabokov makes a point of saying is that, despite John Ray Jr. Nabokov adds that "the initial shiver of inspiration" for Lolita "was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: In response to an American critic who characterized Lolita as the record of Nabokov's "love affair with the romantic novel", Nabokov writes that "the substitution of 'English language' for 'romantic novel' would make this elegant formula more correct".

Nabokov concludes the afterword with a reference to his beloved first language, which he abandoned as a writer once he moved to the United States in Nabokov rated the book highly. In an interview for BBC Television in , he said:. Lolita is a special favorite of mine. It was my most difficult book—the book that treated of a theme which was so distant, so remote, from my own emotional life that it gave me a special pleasure to use my combinational talent to make it real.

Over a year later, in an interview for Playboy , he said:. No, I shall never regret Lolita. She was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle—its composition and its solution at the same time, since one is a mirror view of the other, depending on the way you look. Of course she completely eclipsed my other works—at least those I wrote in English: There is a queer, tender charm about that mythical nymphet.

In the same year, in an interview with Life , Nabokov was asked which of his writings had most pleased him. I would say that of all my books Lolita has left me with the most pleasurable afterglow—perhaps because it is the purest of all, the most abstract and carefully contrived.

I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since , but of no human beings. The Russian translation includes a "Postscriptum" [72] in which Nabokov reconsiders his relationship with his native language.

Be careful about doing that if your novel will be a little lame by comparison. One person found this helpful. It starts to rain. Maybe I should do that. It might be fun. Having never heard of the author before, I pulled it off the shelf because I liked the font on the spine. I was treated to a boy dressed up in a panda suit on the front cover and immediately, I was hooked. Next to the panda boy is a quote by Nick Cave: Etgar Allison is our young protagonist.

He is a fifteen year old left home with only his dog, Amundsen, on Easter holiday, while his parents head to Russia for a wedding. When it is discovered that his girlfriend got drunk and cheated on him, he falls into a haze of anxiety, depression, loneliness and alcohol. It is about this time that he meets Macy in an adult chat room and they strike up a strange internet relationship. Here is where the story takes a turn for the interesting. Before this point, Etgar is floating aimlessly, avoiding his friends as much as possible and consuming copious amounts of alcohol.

He spends his time with his dog, Amundsen, who might be one of my favorite characters in the book. Macy takes it further when she says she will be in London, where she thinks Etgar is, and there they meet for a very adult time.

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They share three days, filled with strange interactions and even stranger events, and connect enough to share the truth of their lives. This book as amazing, and I am in love with the prose. Ben Brooks is an extremely talented writer who has the most amazing ability to put his words together and make you feel things. However, if references to snuff films, strange internet porn and bestiality are not going to drive you away, pick this book up. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.

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