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The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World (2018)

di Sarah Weinman

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"The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov's masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness." ??David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner.

Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner's full story for the very first time. Drawing upon extensive investigations, legal documents, public records, and interviews with remaining relatives, Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita.

Sally Horner's story echoes the stories of countless girls and women who never had the chance to speak for themselves. By diving deeper in the publication history of Lolita and restoring Sally to her rightful place in the lore of the novel's creation, The Real Lolita casts a new light on the dark inspiration for a modern classic.… (altro)

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Kind of mediocre non fiction. The connection between Vladimir Nabokov’s character and a real life kidnapping case described within is not really convincing. Perhaps, it’s that I hardly care whether Nabokov did base his famous novel Lolita on the case or not. His might have been better if the author had focused on true crime writing and not speculation. Then again that’s just my opinion. ( )
  nitrolpost | Mar 19, 2024 |
I enjoyed the scope covered by this book. I wish the author would be more specific on certain points. For instance, when she danced around the question of whether Nabokov based the book on Sally Horner's ordeal, or not. She never explained why this was so important to establish. What if he did? What he did not but actually crafted the novel Lolita independent of any true events? I wonder was she implying he is a s*xual deviant. Or can we conclude it anyway based on his background. ( )
  PrincessPottymouth | Feb 2, 2024 |
I have never read Lolita, but if I ever do, I can say with certainty that reading this book will have enhanced the experience. Everything I learned in this book is important, from the actual intent of the original book and the actual story of Sally Horner and what she suffered. So much is lost when you get swept up in what people assume is meant on something they've never read. This is a stark reminder of what is present- as well as what is not.
Technically speaking, this book is very well paced, easy to follow, and well written. Its respectful of the pain involved and doesn't go into unnecessary detail about any of the harm done. I recommend it to anyone who has the stomach for knowing more about the subject matters. ( )
  potds1011 | Dec 24, 2023 |
“The appreciation of art can make a sucker out of those who forget the darkness of real life.”

I’m not a big fan of true crime stories and I’ve never read Lolita or anything else from Nabokov, and I still found this a compelling story. Recommended.


[Note: I am no longer rating books with numerical or star ratings. ]
  LizzK | Dec 8, 2023 |
I loved the idea of this book, but the execution fell a little flat. Weinman tells the true crime story of Sally Horner's kidnapping and then attempts to prove how [a:Vladimir Nabokov|5152|Vladimir Nabokov|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1482502806p2/5152.jpg] used it as inspiration for the story of Lolita. If you haven't read Lolita, I think this book will be a hard one to appreciate. If you have, you may find the evidence for his reliance on the Sally Horner story to be a little forced. Realistically, pedophilia is not some new phenomenon, and the Horner story is more unique because it was a kidnapping than because a small, powerless girl didn't tell anyone.

Originally, this book began as a magazine article, and I think that was probably the best format for it. However, the true crime story of Sally is quite interesting (and horrifying), and those who like true crime AND who have read Lolita will probably find this book to be thought provoking if not especially compelling. ( )
  Anita_Pomerantz | Mar 23, 2023 |
Though Nabokov himself steadfastly denied that his magnum opus — some 20 years in the making — had roots in the foul rag-and-bone shop of true crime, Weinman assembles a substantial array of evidence that points to a horrific real-life story at the center of this novel, a life story that, she says, Nabokov “strip-mined to produce the bones of Lolita.”...

Weinman has evocatively reconstructed Sally’s nightmare, as well as the sexual mores of mid-20th-century America. When Sally’s mother was told her daughter had been found alive in a California trailer park, she reacted by saying, “Whatever she has done, I can forgive her.” Upon her return to junior high in Camden, Sally was ostracized; the boys “looked at her as a total whore,” a friend told Weinman.
aggiunto da SnootyBaronet | modificaWashington Post, Maureen Corrigan
 
“The Real Lolita” is Sarah Weinman’s attempt to pull back the veil on the kidnapping that may have helped inspire Nabokov’s novel. The sections detailing Sally’s abduction read as standard-issue, ripped-from-the-headlines Dead Girl fare. They’re lurid. Heady. The pre-teen victim possesses a “fantastic power . . . the capacity to haunt.” Weinman has written widely on crime fiction; in her own prose, cheesed-up cliffhangers abound: “The joke became truth before the summer of 1955 was over”; “the stuff of nightmares that would rip any mother apart.”... But this book presents no evidence that Nabokov exploited Sally Horner to breathe life into his imaginings. What it insinuates, powerfully, is that Weinman has exploited both Sally and Nabokov to justify her prurient interest in yet another sad, dead girl.
aggiunto da SnootyBaronet | modificaThe New Yorker, Katy Waldman
 
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You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs--the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate--the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.
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"The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov's masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness." ??David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner.

Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner's full story for the very first time. Drawing upon extensive investigations, legal documents, public records, and interviews with remaining relatives, Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita.

Sally Horner's story echoes the stories of countless girls and women who never had the chance to speak for themselves. By diving deeper in the publication history of Lolita and restoring Sally to her rightful place in the lore of the novel's creation, The Real Lolita casts a new light on the dark inspiration for a modern classic.

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