The Lolita Riddle: trailer

This ground-breaking documentary 'The Lolita Riddle' exposes Vladimir Nabokov's best-selling novel as one of the greatest literary hoaxes of all time.

Part 1 of the complete documentary: http://youtu.be/spTUa41pzoY
Part 2: http://youtu.be/PSri8XTmj8E
Part 3: http://www.youtu.be/jL14UOuUiNA
Part 4: http://youtu.be/cLAHVbE51Vg
Part 5: http://youtu.be/t5g0BMwCXfs

The documentary, which has been made for non-commercial, educational purposes, seeks to advance a fundamental rethink of Nabokov's motivations for writing his controversial novel Lolita (1955). The central character of the novel, Humbert Humbert, incestuously enslaves of his step-daughter Lolita over a two year period.

In several interviews granted during the 1960s Vladimir Nabokov indicated he had planted a 'riddle' or 'puzzle' in Lolita which promised an 'elegant solution' My documentary demonstrates how the author hid secret information about his own sexual abuse as a boy in his memoirs and novels. It exposes the author's enduring preoccupation with pedophilia, criticisms of Lewis Carroll and his parodies of Shirley Temple's films. The documentary maintains Nabokov wrote Lolita in order to: 1) at long last expose his own incestuous abuser -- his pedophilic Uncle Ruka, and; 2) overturn Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex theory of incest. (Nabokov detested 'the Viennese Quack' and equated his Oedipus theory to 'the police state of sexual myth'.) Lolita's unrecognised status as an elaborate hoax explains why Nabokov aptly described his novel in a 1954 letter as a 'time-bomb.'

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[McNab342]

This documentary will be launched at the Red Rattler Theatre in Marrickville, Sydney on August 29, commencing at 3 pm. 'The Lolita Riddle' will become generally available via this, or a linked website in September 2010.

[Spoard]

Lolita would be a hell of a 'timebomb'. I can't wait for the documentary.......Quilty has always been such an elusive character

[MrNobodysPinealGland]

Thanks for posting this!