The true life of Lolita. The abduction of Sally Horner

The abduction of eleven -year -old Sally Horner and Roman Nabokov, who shocked the world "

"Lolita" of Vladimir Nabokov not just made a splash among contemporaries of the writer - to this day it remains one of the most popular novels in the world. However, few people know that the plot of the book is largely inspired by the story of the abduction of Sally Horner, an eleven -year -old girl, about whom Nabokov learned from newspapers. Sarah Weinman, a journalist and editor of the Crimeereads site, for the first time since the 1950s sheds the light on the tragic fate of Horner and describes the circumstances in which the sensational novel Nabokov was written.
"The genuine life of Lolita", based on the documents of the court, the memoirs of Horner"s relatives, previously not published by the FBI materials and the testimony of Nabokov’s close ones, makes you look at the plot known to everyone from a new party - and think about how an artistic reflection of real events can influence our perception of the crime