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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov modernism “Salt & Time” revives favouritePoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve year old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and