Girl on Film: Kubrick’s Lolita versus Lyne’s

This is the second in my ongoing series of posts on Nabokov’s Lolita, which I’m “teaching” over a twelve-week “class” that started yesterday. The first installment in the series is here.

There’s a lot to be learned about a novel from seeing it in media other than the accustomed one, for instance, reading it in translation or watching a movie adaptation. A novel by design leaves a great deal to the imagination, and it’s always interesting to see how someone else has imagined it, particularly when that someone has to imagine it down to the details.