Best Lolita Edition

[Anonymous No.10527936]

I started to read the Revised and Annotated edition of Lolita and it the preface it says

"This annotated edition, a corrected and chastely revised version of the edition first published in 1970,"

By chastely does that mean restraining the sexual nature of the book or to sparingly edit it? I want to read the version that is closest to what Nabokov originally wrote.

[Anonymous No.10527952]

>>10527936
Annotation and revision are not the same, just pay attention to words

[Anonymous No.10527956]

Why would you need an annotated edition of Lolita?

[Anonymous No.10527960]

>>10527936
Lolita reader on the right
Dolores on the left

[Anonymous No.10527967]

>>10527956
Because women have no vital organs above the neck

[Anonymous No.10527976]

>>10527952
should've included the exact version I'm reading. https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Lolita-Revised-Updated/dp/0679727299

>>10527956
guy says there's some dated references

[Anonymous No.10527981]

>>10527956
>Many kinds of allusions are identified: literary, historical, mythological, Biblical, anatomical, zoological, botanical, and geographical. Writers and artists long out of fashion (e.g., Maeterlinck) receive fuller treatment than more familiar names. Selective cross-references to identical or related allusions in other Nabokov works (a sort of mini-concordance) will help to place Lolita in a wider context and, one hopes, may be of some assistance to future critics of Nabokov.

[Anonymous No.10528023]

>>10527956
>Why would you need an annotated edition of Lolita?

I thought this too when I recognized the Poe allusion, thinking how shallow it was, but the Yale lecture on Youtube about Lolita really shows the extent and obscurity of some of Nabokov's references

[Anonymous No.10528052]

>>10528023
>>10527981

Fair enough, I'll re-read it soon.

[Anonymous No.10528054]

Bump. Meaning to order me a copy as well. Thinking I'll go the extra mile and get a hardback, but only if the edition is good

[Anonymous No.10528143]

[Anonymous No.10528250]

>>10527956
To get the trilingual puns. No much Russian, but there’s French on almost every page.

[Anonymous No.10528510]

Googling around and comparing editions it doesn't seem like lolita has any crass depictions that need to be softened. Looking at a couple of editions and I'm not seeing any differences between the text. Seems like by chaste revisions it meant few. If anyone knows any really intense passages I can compare the editions I have, but doesn't seem like much has changed.