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Lolita and the Perversion of the Text

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clan. Nabokov’s son Dmitri has been called upon to give his blessings to Lyne’s film.
On Nabokov’s script, see Samuel Schuman’s “Lohta: Novel and Screenplay.”
In Lyne’s uncut film, the “real-life” nymphet is not played by “his Lolita” alone,
however. Her head is attached to abody o f a female old enough to appear nude, according
to the current child pornography laws.

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