"Vive l'Amérique, vive le vieux continent!": Europe and America in Nabokov's Lolita and Baldwin's Giovanni's Room

Abstract

This article analyses two novels, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. It looks at how these novels depict America in their work, especially in connection to sexuality

Keywords

• Vladimir Nabokov
• James Baldwin
• America
• homosexuality
• masculinity