Dolores Haze - Tumblr Posts

back to the basics 🩶

Dolores Haze is actually a character of whose “official” information we know a lot about (“Dolores on the dotted line”): We know when in her parents’ marriage she was conceived (at their honeymoon at Mexico), we know her exact birth and death dates, we know her IQ (120)… But we don’t know much about her inner life beyond little glimpses because the monster who is telling her story didn’t care about that.

tired of "loving the lolita movies is valid uwu" on here like yeah sure you can like them (for whatever reason) or have nostalgic fondness of them but theyre still bad adaptations that pervert the content of the novel, promote a victim blaming narrative and objectify child actresses (one of whom was sexually abused by the producers).

"you can like the aesthetics though" sure you can, same as above, and you can like vintage fashion unrelated to lolita but the costume design in the 97 movie is actively constructed to sexualize the child character for a modern audience and code her as a sexual object for humberts and the viewers gaze and has absolutely nothing to do with what the dolores haze of nabokovs novel wore. that is what youre celebrating and implicitly promoting.

like its your blog, no one can tell you not to post whatever you want but if you're uncritically posting the 97 movie you are also perpetuating the false image of lolita that movie feeds into, period. i'm not gonna coddle anyone and pretend thats uwu valid as if that movie isnt responsible for most of the damage to the understanding of the novel in this generation (and dont get me started on the 62 film but most people dont post that as much). adrian lyne meet me in the pit.

Lettura attuale! 📖

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov instagram: @elletsk

“You revolting creature. I was a daisy-fresh girl, and look what you’ve done to me. I ought to call the police and tell them you raped me." - Dolores Haze in Lolita

art exhibition by Anna (amzcostumes on instagram - caption below)

"One of the few times Dolly is quoted directly (if we can trust our narrator not to make words up) it is to say clearly what happened to her, immediately after. She uses the same word late in the book again, reminding her stepfather that having nowhere else to go doesn't mean she can't recognise his abuse for what it is. These days a common critique of 'Lolita' is that Dolly doesn't have a voice. While the book is obviously dominated by Humberts POV that isn't quite true.

"Nabokov dismissed his first draft of the short story that would become 'Lolita' because "the little girl wasn't alive. She hardly spoke." In writing 'Lolita' "little by little I managed to give her some semblance of reality." Dolores Haze speaks, even though much of her voice is taken from her.

"Like many children trapped in desparate circumstances she tries to make herself heard in whatever way she thinks she can, even if it is "just" speaking the truth of those circumstances to her rapists face. Dolores Haze has a voice and its up to us to listen."

lolita (1997) film stills ୨୧

lucidamente pazzo, follemente calmo, un cacciatore incantato ubriaco fradicio

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (1955)

L'autre soir un air froid d'opéra m'alita;

Son félé -- bien fol est qui s'y fie!

Il neige, le décor s'écroule, Lolita!

Lolita, qu'ai-je fait de ta vie?

Lo being Lo

𝓂𝒶𝒷𝑒𝓎 𝒾𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒷𝓊𝓃𝓃𝓎

𝒹𝒾𝑒𝓉 𝓂𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒹𝑒𝓌 𝒷𝒶𝒷𝓎 𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓇𝓀 𝒸𝒾𝓉𝓎

𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓅𝑒𝒹 𝓈𝓊𝓃𝑔𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓈𝑒𝓈

In the land of gods and monsters

humbert humbert gets guillotined in 4K

Fuck you Humbert

𝒻𝒶𝓇𝓂𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒹𝒶𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉𝑒𝓇, 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝑒 ♡

𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝔀𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓷 𝓲𝓼 𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓮𝓬𝓽 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓻𝓲𝓿𝓪𝓵 𝓯𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓼

ᵃʳᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ˢᵃᵗⁱˢᶠⁱᵉᵈ ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵃⁿ ᵃᵛᵉʳᵃᵍᵉ ˡⁱᶠᵉ?

𝓘 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓷𝓪 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓯𝓾𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓫𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾