Humbert Wavering Between Reality And Fantasy

Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian-born American novelist, is commonly recognized as a postmodernist writer. He is a unique figure in American contemporary literary world. The publication of Lolita makes his fame rise and spread.This thesis is intended to expound the credibility and incredibility of Humbert's confession. In the novel, Humbert, a thirty-year-old European, narrates his perverse love with a twelve-year-old American girl, Lolita. His real and vivid life panorama, sophisticated narrative strategy and allusions impel the reader to believe his confession. While the involuted design of the novel, the portrait of Lolita and the relationship of Humbert, Quilty and Vivian Darkbloom make the reader realize that such a story is in no existence. His confession is incredible. Humbert's confession creates a world of reality and fantasy and therefore invests Humbert with the quality of reality and fantasy, which has the reader fall into a dilemma where the reader suffers from his adoration and hatred for Humbert and constantly interrogates Humbert's existence with torture.Lolita is a double-side text, which substantially involves the criticism of Lolita in duality and triggers the endless dispute of its morality and aesthetic bliss. The reader, while reading such a novel, is no longer the "consumer" but the "producer" of the novel.