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L'Affaire "Lolita"

Maurice Girodias, The Olympia Press, original edition, 1957, ARCHIVES IMEC, GRD 1

With his book L’Affaire Lolita. Défense de l’écrivain (1955), Girodias makes use of all possible literary claims (critics recognized the book’s great qualities) and legal arguments (the grounds for the ban are contestable) to defend the cause.