Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’; Humbert’s Lo-lee-ta

 The resident literary critic takes us through Nabokov’s work that at first shocked the literary world but has since taken a reverential place for its clever wordplay. The story of a man’s fascination with an underaged girl is shocking and abhorrent, but Nabokov believes that appropriate language could elevate any material, including this, to the level of ‘art’. But is he merely toying with us?