![]() He even offered to have Humbert and Lolita legally married. The Quilty murder would not be brutal, and in the seduction scene Lolita would wear a long-sleeved high-necked, full-length, heavy flannel nightgown, and Humbert would be clad in bathrobe and pajamas. He would de-emphasize the novel’s sexual content, drawing innocent humor from the conflict between a mature man and a gum-snapping adolescent. Kubrick promised the censors that his film would not be the twisted saga of a nympholept. But to condone the story of a love affair between a man and a child, compounded by an aura of incest, would make a mockery of the Code, which had especially strict proscriptions against sexual perversity. ![]() The controversial property would be unmarketable without a distribution deal, which hinged on a Seal of Approval from the industry’s Production Code Administration. From the start, the project was circumscribed if not doomed by film industry standards of the time. Within weeks of the book’s appearance Stanley Kubrick and his producer James B. Lolita was a best-seller and a literary landmark. The sensational reviews were everything for which Putnam’s could hope. ![]() Putnam’s finally published the book in the United States. In 1958, backed up by critical opinion vouching for its artistic integrity, G.P. ![]() Two years later excerpts appeared in Anchor Review. Nabokov sent it to Paris, where in 1955 Olympia Press brought out an English language edition for the expatriate trade. ![]() It was in 1947 that Vladimir Nabokov began writing what he described as “a short novel about a man who liked little girls.” Completed in 1954, the manuscript was rejected as pornographic by at least four New York publishers. ![]()
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