Comparative analysis of the literary work, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and the artistic works of Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, better known as Balthus Lolita is written as a memoir in the first person by its main character, Humbert Humbert. This is a story that could be seen in two very different ways, two very different perspectives. One could see it as the story of a middle-aged pedophile, as evidenced by the quote "Humbert Humbert is undoubtedly an honest-to-God, open and closed sexual deviant, displaying classic ruthlessness, cunning and above all attention to detail." .” And the other, of a middle-aged man anguished over his love for a prepubescent girl, a forbidden love. “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue travels three steps along the palate to hit the teeth on the third step. The. Lee. Ta. It was Lo, simply Lo, in the morning, five feet seven inches tall with only one sock. It was Lola in pants. It was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. “I chose to see this work as the next. To me it showed a middle-aged man trapped in a moral dilemma. A statement from the first page of the book says best how I feel about the story. “Lolita is not about sex, but about love. Almost every page exhibits some explicit, erotic emotion or some erotic action and yet it's not about sex. It's love." Nabokov began writing Lolita in 1949 and finished in 1954. When he finished his work he struggled to publish it. Publishers were nervous about printing a book supposedly narrated by a pedophile. Four American publishers rejected it before he finally managed to get it published by Olympia Press in Paris and in 1958 in America. The controversy surrounding the book only increased its readership and sales. To understand this controversy it is necessary to understand the story and further understand why I considered him more of a tragic love interest rather than the story of pornographic pedophilia perceived by others. The story begins with a boyish Humbert having his first taste of romance with the love of his young life, Annabel.