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Lädt ... The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World (Original 2018; 2018. Auflage)von Sarah Weinman (Autor)
Werk-InformationenThe Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World von Sarah Weinman (2018)
   Books Read in 2019 (1,713) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.   ) nitrolpost | Mar 19, 2024 |   ) PrincessPottymouth | Feb 2, 2024 | Technically speaking, this book is very well paced, easy to follow, and well written. Its respectful of the pain involved and doesn't go into unnecessary detail about any of the harm done. I recommend it to anyone who has the stomach for knowing more about the subject matters. (  ) potds1011 | Dec 24, 2023 | I’m not a big fan of true crime stories and I’ve never read Lolita or anything else from Nabokov, and I still found this a compelling story. Recommended. [Note: I am no longer rating books with numerical or star ratings. ] LizzK | Dec 8, 2023 | Originally, this book began as a magazine article, and I think that was probably the best format for it. However, the true crime story of Sally is quite interesting (and horrifying), and those who like true crime AND who have read Lolita will probably find this book to be thought provoking if not especially compelling. (  ) Anita_Pomerantz | Mar 23, 2023 |
 Though Nabokov himself steadfastly denied that his magnum opus — some 20 years in the making — had roots in the foul rag-and-bone shop of true crime, Weinman assembles a substantial array of evidence that points to a horrific real-life story at the center of this novel, a life story that, she says, Nabokov “strip-mined to produce the bones of Lolita.”... Weinman has evocatively reconstructed Sally’s nightmare, as well as the sexual mores of mid-20th-century America. When Sally’s mother was told her daughter had been found alive in a California trailer park, she reacted by saying, “Whatever she has done, I can forgive her.” Upon her return to junior high in Camden, Sally was ostracized; the boys “looked at her as a total whore,” a friend told Weinman.  “The Real Lolita” is Sarah Weinman’s attempt to pull back the veil on the kidnapping that may have helped inspire Nabokov’s novel. The sections detailing Sally’s abduction read as standard-issue, ripped-from-the-headlines Dead Girl fare. They’re lurid. Heady. The pre-teen victim possesses a “fantastic power . . . the capacity to haunt.” Weinman has written widely on crime fiction; in her own prose, cheesed-up cliffhangers abound: “The joke became truth before the summer of 1955 was over”; “the stuff of nightmares that would rip any mother apart.”... But this book presents no evidence that Nabokov exploited Sally Horner to breathe life into his imaginings. What it insinuates, powerfully, is that Weinman has exploited both Sally and Nabokov to justify her prurient interest in yet another sad, dead girl. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
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HTML: "The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov's masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness." ??David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner's full story for the very first time. Drawing upon extensive investigations, legal documents, public records, and interviews with remaining relatives, Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita. Sally Horner's story echoes the stories of countless girls and women who never had the chance to speak for themselves. By diving deeper in the publication history of Lolita and restoring Sally to her rightful place in the lore of the novel's creation, The Real Lolita casts a new light on the dark inspiration for a modern classic. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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