Lolita In The Postmodern Context

Lolita is directed by the Russia American writer Vladimir Nabokov,and the most controversial works. The novel brought Nabokov international reputation ,but also to generation after generation of readers leave untold topic.The complicacy of subject matter,symbolic configuration between the leading character,suspicion and denial of traditional values,the search for missing the main body and carefully depicted details ,all make not only the Lolita confusing and complicated,but also become the first novel of postmodernist in the history of American literature.Lolita is a labyrinth network which consist of narrative labyrinth ,time labyrinth and personality labyrinth.To interptet Lolita is the process which look for a way in Nabokov's maze.The framework of postmodern about subjective picture is displayed by means of incest story,the unique structure and tortuous plot ultimately reveal the embarrassing situation of human in postmodern context.As a exile writer of strange life experiences,Nabokov's profound life experience attached to Lolita's story.Unsayable subject ,such as time and desire ,is placed novel's labyrinth.Humbert's tragedy display human's situation of alienation and fragmentation.Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory give us a new outlook when we interpret Lolita.And the use of Lacan's mirror more clearly see that Nabokov's—"extreme literary ontologist" has Russia's heart which full of love and compassion to humanity.