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Lolita
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being

Naked Lunch
1959 novel by William S. Burroughs
Zazie in the Metro
1959 novel by Raymond Queneau

Quiet Days in Clichy
novel by Henry Miller

Watt
novel by Samuel Beckett

The Ticket That Exploded
novel by William S. Burroughs

The Soft Machine
novel by William S. Burroughs