Lolita | Literary Precedents
Although Nabokov's novels abound in literary allusions and parody, they do not fit in easily among general literary trends or traditions. Nabokov himself disliked questions of "influences" and "models," saying in one interview that the only author who influenced him was Pierre Delalande — a fictional creation of Nabokov himself. The very number and variety of authors and works which have been mentioned in connection with Lolita alone is telling: Critics have compared it to Dante, Poe, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866), Robert Louis Stevenson's Doctor Jekyll and Mr....
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