The book "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, the gripping tale of an adult man's all-consuming, fatal passion for an underage girl, has a reputation as one of the most controversial books of all time. Literary critics have spent decades trying to figure out what it is. Is it a clinical case, a challenge to false piety, a Freudian exercise in literature (though Nabokov treated Freud with ironic contempt), a satirical novella, or a melancholy book about loneliness and love? The mystery of Lolita is impossible to solve with certainty.