The Narrative Strategy Of "lolita" Study

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) is an outstanding author in 20 century. He is distinguished in the literary world as a novelist, poet, critics and translator. Nabokov's most famous novel Lolita was published in 15th September 1955 and hence lead to tremendous controversy.Lolita is a story about a man 's distorted love to an American young girl. Nabokov uses complex narrative strategies to make an earthshaking narrative effect in the novel. This article attempts to utilize the theory of narratology to decode Lolita and analyze the narrative strategy on creating sympathy and dispelling sympathy in Lolita. The two strategies are complete opposite and coexistent in Lolita. The article delves into how Nabokov used the excellent narrative strategy to make intensely narrative effect of irony. At last, the article declares Lolita is an intricate work with a mulriple narrative effect, in which Nabokov never give up the moral judgment.The article has three parts: introduction, text and conclusion. The first part discusses the tremendous controversy caused by the narrative strategy of Lolita. The second part use narratology's theory to analyze the narrative strategy by close reading. There are two chapters in the second part: the first chapter analyzes the strategy of making sympathy, which contains the choice of perspective and narrative voice, establishment of dual addressee. The second chapter analyzes the narrative strategy on dispelling sympathy, which contains the creation of the unreliable narrator and the voice of irony made by implied author. The third part discusses the reason why Nabokov used these narrative strategy, declaring that Nabokov never give up the moral judgment in Lolita.