Books Similar to LolitaĪda, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle was published almost 15 years after Lolita and is another work by Vladimir Nabokov. So I’ve compiled a list of other controversial novels that have similar themes to Lolita by Nabokov. Whilst Lolita is certainly a very unique novel, I found myself thinking of other books like Lolita whilst I was reading it. Nabokov’s unreliable narrator has a way with words and the prose in Lolita is beautiful and in sharp contrast to the content it describes. I found reading Lolita to be a thoroughly uncomfortable experience though I can definitely appreciate its literary merits. Lolita is now considered to be one of the best books of the twentieth century and appears on many book lists as one of the top classics to read. Of course, that subject hasn’t become any less disturbing in modern society but freedom of expression has developed considerably.
This is because it follows the story of one man’s obsession with a young girl and one of the main themes of Lolita is paedophilia.
#The lover duras sex free#
If you've reviewed any of these books, feel free to email me (bexadler at yahoo dot com) the link and I'll add it to the post.The subject matter of Lolita by Nabokov is, you know, somewhat controversial and it was banned in numerous countries in the years following its publication, including the UK. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon P.S. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 8. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (half) 9. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan 10. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 12. The Watermelon King by Daniel Wallace 13. The Complete Book of Running for Women by Claire Kowalchik 17. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not by Trish Ryan 19. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 20. The (Non)runners Marathon Guide for Women by Dawn Dais 25. The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden 31. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver 33. Fifteen Minutes of Shame by Lisa Daily 35. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman 39. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris 41. Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi 45. Up High in the Trees by Kiara Brinkman 53. Below you'll find the list of what I read, and if you click the links you can read my reviews of those books. In 2008 I planned to read at least one book a week, or 52 books by the end of the year.
I'd have preferred to have read a biography written about her than to have read this book. Also, I found the afterword and information about Duras' life to be more interesting than the book she wrote about her life. What I do know is this book was barely more than 100 pages and it took me nearly two weeks to get through it.
Perhaps it was the sex scenes, which may have been scandalous in her time. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light." ().Īside from a few lovely passages, I don't understand how this was Duras' most acclaimed work. The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. To the other people in the book, including her mother, this made her a prostitute, using him for his money.ĭespite my dislike for the book, I did find a few passages I enjoyed, including this description of the dry season in Saigon: "The light fell from the sky in cataracts of pure transparency, in torrents of silence and immobility. During that time she had a Chinese lover, which was unheard of at the time, both because of the racial difference and because of their different social classes (she was poor and he rich). The book is autobiographical, talking about the author's time spent in Saigon during the 1930s as a French colonist. To add to the confusion was the fact that very few of the characters were named. Without a main timeline until the last few pages of the book, The Lover was a confusing read. She goes from being age 52 in one paragraph to being age 8 in the next. The Lover reads as though Marguerite Duras had a loose-leaf journal that she accidently dropped, or maybe threw against a wall, then picked it back up, not bothering to see if pages were missing or if it was in the correct order, and had it published. I thought maybe it was just a bad translation, but apparently that's just how she writes. I sought out the advice of my French friends after I had already started reading this book because I was having such a difficult time getting through it. Not even native French speakers can understand it when it's in French."Īnd the conversation went on like that. Please tell me you aren't trying to read it in French. Them: "It doesn't matter, they're all terrible. Me: "But I didn't even tell you which book I'm reading." Them: "Oh no! No! You can't be reading Marguerite Duras. Me: "Hey, so I'm reading a book by Marguerite Duras." I can sum this book up in one conversation I had with a French friend:
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