The Story of a Cover Girl: Leading Designers and Illustrators Reimagine Nabokov’s Lolita

 

"Lolita is not about love, because love is always mutual; Lolita is about obsession, which is never, ever love, and Nabokov himself was so disappointed that people did not understand this and take away the right message… For how could anyone call this feeding frenzy of selfishness, devouring, and destruction “love”?"

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