Nabokov and Kubrick: the Settling of Lolita's Narrators in Different Medias

Abstract

The following article aims to examine in what way the presence of the narrators in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita has been transposed to its screenplay, written by the author himself, and to its filmic version, directed by Stanley Kubrick, through the perspective of the French school of Discourse Analysis. In the course of this article the presence of the narrator is identified in the different media formats; a description of the characterization of the narrator in the different mediatic formats of the piece (novel, screenplay and movie) is also offered. In conclusion, an analysis on the effects reached through diverse narrative resources utilized in screenplay and movie is proposed.