Does anyone on the list know for sure that this isn’t exactly what happens in the Chinese translation of Lolita . . . ?

 

David Powelstock

 

Lolita, first published in 1955 in Paris, tells the story of a middle-aged man, who falls in love with a 12-year-old girl and marries her sick, widowed mother to satisfy his erotic desires. Hemolests the girl in a Riviera hotel while she's asleep, she wakens and he runs into the traffic and dies.