2. LOLITA
《洛麗塔》

Thanks to Nabokov, the word "lolita" has entered common vernacular - but that wouldn't have happened had he named his book Kingdom By the Sea, as he wrote to?a friend. The name was an homage to Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee," because in the novel, Humbert nicknamed his first teenage love after Poe's heroine. The poem goes, "It was many and many a year ago / In a kingdom by the sea, / That a maiden there lived whom you may know / By the name of Annabel Lee."
納博科夫（Nabokov）使lolita（洛麗塔）一詞進(jìn)入了我們的日常用語。但要是像他在寫給朋友的信里說的那樣，以《海邊王國》（Kingdom By the Sea）為這本書命名的話，這一切就不會發(fā)生了。《海邊王國》這個名字是向埃德加?愛倫?坡（Edgar Allan Poe）的《安娜貝爾?李》（Annabel Lee）的致敬，因?yàn)樵谛≌f中，漢伯特（Humbert）用愛倫?坡這篇詩作的女主人公的名字稱呼他青少年時期的初戀。愛倫?坡的詩中寫道：“在很多很多年以前/在一個海邊的王國/居住著一位少女，你也許知道她/她的名字叫安娜貝爾?李。”