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Vladimir Nabokov's Narrative Technique in Lolita.

Since the publication of Lolita, many critics have given his novels various reviews, which are too variated to be categorized into one sect. However, there is no denying Nabokov must be an experimental stylist, for his novels such as Pale Fire, Laughter in the Dark, and Lolita are well known for their peculiar narration. His literary experiments are language-centered ones which focus on form. In Lolita, Nabokov uses various literary devices such as allusion, pun, parody and the frequent intrusion of author in a strategy of ‘defamilization’ which is associated with Russian Formalism. Nabokov despised that literature was used to serve political, social, moral purposes and their like. He pursued and accomplished his artistic aim, ‘aesthetic bliss’ by using the Russian formalistic literary devices, especially the ‘defamilization.’ “Aesthetic bliss” means “art for art's sake.”