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'''Humbert Humbert''' is the main character and [[unreliable narrator]] of the [[1955]] novel ''[[Lolita]]'', by Russian-born American novelist [[Vladimir Nabokov]]. Humbert is a divorced scholar of French poetry who comes to America and falls in love with twelve-year-old Dolores Haze. As a narrator, Humbert Humbert is remarkable for his sardonicism and satiric wit. Nabokov once said of the name: "The double rumble is, I think, very nasty, very suggestive. It is a hateful name for a hateful person." The name evokes the Spanish ''hombre'', "man," and the French ''ombre'', "shadow"--much as the name of [[John Shade]], central character in Nabokov's later novel [[Pale Fire]]. It also evokes the plain English word ''humbug''. Furthermore, the double name hints at the novel's [[doppelgänger]] motif. Humbert Humbert has been portrayed on film by [[James Mason]] and [[Jeremy Irons]]. ''Book'' magazine ranked Humbert Humbert [[third]] on its list of the [[100 Best Characters in Fiction since 1900]].

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