“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.” These are the opening lines of one of the most beautiful and controversial novels in the English language, ironically written by a Russian author, Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita‘s unreliable narrator, paedophile and poet Humbert Humbert seduces the reader as he does his 12-year-old stepdaughter, making us complicit in her abduction and his crime.