Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
Besides the intriguing story the album is musically very interesting - with warm, funky, mysterious vibe.
Conceptually speaking, Histoire de Melody Nelson is perhaps the closest thing to a musical imagining of Vladimir Nabokov’s seminal and controversial 1955 novel Lolita. This is not to say that the two masterworks are directly linked, but that they present licentiously similar scenarios. Put simply, both concern a sexual relationship between a middle-aged man and an underage girl. Thus, for obvious reasons, were either effort executed with anything short of nuanced perfection, the dubious subject matter alone would render both works downright perverted, inaccessible and wholly inexcusable.
But like Lolita, Histoire de Melody Nelson is an artistic triumph about the power of human obsession. It’s an important, enjoyable work and one that rightfully demands to be heard almost 50 years later.
Besides the intriguing story the album is musically very interesting - with warm, funky, mysterious vibe.
Conceptually speaking, Histoire de Melody Nelson is perhaps the closest thing to a musical imagining of Vladimir Nabokov’s seminal and controversial 1955 novel Lolita. This is not to say that the two masterworks are directly linked, but that they present licentiously similar scenarios. Put simply, both concern a sexual relationship between a middle-aged man and an underage girl. Thus, for obvious reasons, were either effort executed with anything short of nuanced perfection, the dubious subject matter alone would render both works downright perverted, inaccessible and wholly inexcusable.
But like Lolita, Histoire de Melody Nelson is an artistic triumph about the power of human obsession. It’s an important, enjoyable work and one that rightfully demands to be heard almost 50 years later.
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