Bravo magazine's second edition of a 2007
selection of 100 essential books of world
literature (www.revistabravo.com.br) included
Nabokov's "Lolita" as its 50th.
The editorial board consulted Harold Bloom and
other rankings, such as those from Time Magazine and Modern Library, as a
guide for their final choice.
The presentation starts with the traditional
"Lolita light of my life" lines, described as an overblown and
passionate "erotic onomatopoeia"...
I didn't find their definition for "essential," nor
its context, or why it was placed as no.50, after Faulkner, Thomas Mann,
T.S.Eliot, Dostoievski, Hemmingway, Conrad, Huxley, H. James...