Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. VLADIMIR NABOKOV was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899.
https://www.amazon.com/Lolita-Vladimir-Nabokov/dp/0679723161

