Lolita: A Screenplay

Author  Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita: A Screenplay

The screenplay for Kubrick’s 1962 film tells the story of an older man’s obsession with a young girl.  •  This is the purely Nabokov version of the screenplay and not the same version which was produced as the motion picture Lolita, distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

“A few days before, at a private screening, I had discovered that Kubrick was a great director, that his Lolita was a first-rate film with magnificent actors, and that only ragged odds and ends of my script had been used. The modifications, the garbling of my best little finds, the omission of entire scenes, the addition of new ones, and all sorts of other changes may not have been sufficient to erase my name from the credit…

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