“…Para mí, una obra de ficción sólo existe en la medida en que me proporciona lo que llamaré lisa y llanamente placer estético, es decir, la sensación de que es algo, en algún lugar, relacionado con otros estados de ser en que el arte (curiosidad, ternura, bondad, éxtasis) es la norma. Todo lo demás es hojarasca tamática o lo que algunos llaman la literatura de Ideas…”
V. Nabokov
Almost everyone knows what is the meaning of 'lolita' and some millions of people all over the world have seen one of the two films (S. Kubrick, 1962; A. Lyne, 1997) based V. Nabokov's 'book Some of them has an idea of the novel beacuse they have read it (completely or not) or they have been told about them. However, quite a few know this "rubí" of Universal Literature as deep as being able to explain what Nabokov had in mind when he wrote it. Refering his own book, Mr. Nabokov wrote some of the most beautiful words refered to a work of art with the shape of a novel. He said that 'Lolita' was like a presence over his house in a sunny and warm summer afternoon and that he hadn't read it many times after its succesful publication. I have read 'Lolita' 4 or 5 times as its world wasn't, wheter fortunately or unfortuntely, in my mind. For me 'Lolita' is ART with capital letters. This book is passion for art and for literature, which in the end means passion for life and love. 'Lolita' knocked me down the first time, broke my soul the second time, made me think a lot about the relations among life, art and moral the third time and everytime I read it again or just took a look at some pages, small diamonds (those "divine details" that Nabokov love as the most preciuos thing in life) came to my hands. It's a never ending source of pleasure. So please, in this era of mass culture industry, read it. It's long, complex and hard, it will take you a long time and you might have to read it twice, even three times to get a deep meaning. However, you know the Greek proverb "Beauty things are hard".
My next aim: reading 'Ada or Ardor' in English (nearly 500 pages of complex delicatessen)
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