Friday, March 16, 2012

Seeking new ways to portray Nabokov's Lolita


 - Wednesday 14 March 2012  
What should the cover of the infamous novel look like?

Some of the entries in Bertram's competition.
Some of the entries in Bertram's competition. Photograph: © John Bertram

Designing the cover for Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita, a book about child abuse, has always been a difficult proposition, and too many past efforts have cast the eponymous character as a pre-teen sex bomb. Which is why John Bertram, an architect and blogger, sponsored a competition calling for better ideas. These are some covers from the resulting book, Lolita: Story of a Cover Girl.
More can be seen at http://bitly.com/lolitajacket

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