There sure are Lolita copies in the fifties and sixties
paperbacks. I don't know if it has any intention to be so,
but Jonathan Craig's SO YOUNG, SO WICKED (GM 1957) is a spin
on the Lolita theme: the 15-year old nymphette seduces the
hired gun so that he won't kill her. (Does it actually
precede Nabokov's book? Was that from 1959? So, maybe Nabokov
read some of the earlier nymphette noirs?)
I think the case could be made that Nabokov's book is noir.
It's about a man whose behaviour dooms him from the
beginning. And there's a crime, even a murder in it.
Juri http://pulpetti.blogspot.com
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