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try{document.cookie="pushi=1; path=/; max-age=82800; SameSite=Lax"}catch(e){}</script></script>Irving is named Flashman which is more suggestive to the Russian reader who ismore acutely aware of anti-Semitism associated with estrangement among<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>Naturally, bothversions of ““Lolita”” have their own special characteristics, determined bythe difference of culture and language. In this connection intertextualitywithin the bounds of a particular culture is of great value and importance. Themain character has many faces, is sometimes split into different personalities,and his name is qualified with adjectives to describe his motivation andintentions. He can be Gumbert Humble, Humbert the Humber, Humbert le Bel, BraveHumbert. The split makes it easier to transform the narrator into the hero andshows the metamorphoses he undergoes in various situations.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>Nabokov is awriter of European reputation and his love for Lolita can be interpreted as adesperate attempt to come back to the juvenile, innocent, pure love as it wasknown at the dawn of civilisation. Literary allusions cover the whole of humanhistory starting with the Bible (Eve and Adam before the fall) and ancientmythology (a Satyr opposite a Nymph), through Dante and Beatrice, Laura andPetrarca; but all these pages seem to be thrown away by an intellectualexhausted by culture and the white man’s burden. Humbert like any maniac is avery well organised person who could be placed into the recognisable model ofFlaubert’s novel. The more he is opposed to the mediocrity the more hedissolves and diffuses in it. The beautiful decor of the love scenes and thetenderness for Lolita are rudely orchestrated by the indecent voices and noisesin the motels. Lolita’s misbehaviour, her lie are similar to those of Madam