The Police - Don't stand so close to me.................?

Question

Basically i was randomnly reading through the lyrics of the above song and wasa just wondering which book by nabakov does the song refer to? i assume it's about a girl falling in love with her teacher. thanks in advance xXx

Answer 1

Lolita. It's the classic story of an older man falling in love with a younger girl.

Answer 2

Although not quite as much so as another Police song, "Every Breath You Take", "Don't Stand So Close to Me" may be considered an example of a paranoia song because of the situation of the schoolteacher—trying to avoid temptation with the girl who lusts after him. The music and lyrics of the song were written by the lead singer of The Police, Sting, who had previously worked as an English teacher. In a 2001 interview for the concert DVD ...All This Time, Sting denied that the song is autobiographical.

The line... "Just like the old man in that (famous) book by Nabokov" ...alludes to Vladimir Nabokov's famous novel 'Lolita'.

Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel was first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, later translated by the author into Russian and published in 1967 in New York. The novel is both internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the book's narrator and protagonist Humbert Humbert becoming sexually obsessed with a pre-pubescent twelve-year-old girl named Dolores Haze.

Answer 3

Lolita... the original movie (1962) was directed by Stanley Kubrick and starred James Mason, Shelley Winters and Sue Lyon.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Year originally published: 1955

Answer 4

Lolita by Nabakov, great book, a bit disturbing though

Answer 5

I have always liked that song.

Answer 6

Lolita

Answer 7

lolita !!!!!!!!!!!!!.............