Affaire Lolita
Lolita (1955) is a bold narrative recounting the trip from hotel to motel of a widower, Humbert Humbert, and a 15 year-old ‘nymphet’.
Refused by four publishers in the US, Vladimir Nabokov’s country of adoption, the English version was published in Paris by Maurice Girodias.
In England, a polemic about the novel’s morality led the authorities to alert the French Ministry of the Interior.
In December 1956, they banned the novel from sale (1881 law) as well as 24 other titles of Olympia Press, including works of pornography.