Dissertação
A representação cultural de Lolita no romance de Nabokov e em suas adptações de Stanley Kubrick e Adrian Lyne
Fecha
2010-03-08Autor
Lazarin, Denize Helena
Institución
Resumen
This research investigates the cultural representation of the homonym
character of the novel Lolita (1955), written by Vladimir Nabokov, from its narrator
point of view. Considering its representation is deeply marked by the movie
adaptation by Stanley Kubrick (1962) and by Adrian Lyne (1997), the research shows
a comparison between both, the novel and the movie text, in order to demonstrate
how the pedophilia, a central subject in the novel, is changed into a romantic love of
a middle-aged man by a seductive teenager. Thus, the nymphet myth is diffused into
the mass culture. In order to demystify the nymphet myth, created by the cinema, the
study will present how the relations of the male domination, mainly concerning the
female body, are established. According to our hypothesis, in the same way Lolita is
constructed by the patriarchal society, Humbert is also a construction of the society
which discriminates any behavior deflect (in this case, the pedophilia). Lolita is
changed into women and constructed by the (patriarchal) society as well Humbert is
changed into an abnormal being and constructed by the (“normal”) society.