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Publishing Lolita
To show that Lolita was a literary masterpiece and not a piece of pornography, Jason Epstein at Doubleday proposed that an issue of the Anchor Review be devoted to demonstrating the book's artistic merits. Smothering the novel with academic praise, they theorized, would lessen the likelihood of a court battle upon its publication in America. Nabokov himself contributed the essay "On a Book Entitled Lolita" to stand as an afterword.
Anchor Review. June, 1957. [view]
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