Abstract: Lolita is a masterpiece written by a renowned Russian-born American writer, Vladimir Nabokov and now valued as a classic of contemporary literature. It has been criticized mainly for its ambiguities of morality or authorial position.This thesis, based on Wayne C. Booth’s theory of rhetoric, is undertaken to analyze the narrative strategies of both the implied author and unreliable narrator. In doing so, the ambiguities of morality can be possibly clarified. This dissertation is composed of four parts. At the beginning, the author of this thesis will give a brief introduction to Vladimir Nabokov and his masterpiece Lolita. In the next part, an introduction and understanding of the intersubjective relationship from The Rhetoric of Fiction, including author and implied author, narrator and unreliable narrator, will be elaborated. What’s more, more attention will be paid to the correlation between the implied author and unreliable narrator. The following part will cover two aspects. The former is the unreliable narrator’s narrative strategies to arouse sympathy. The latter is the implied author’s intervention to dispel compassion and the implied author’s antagonistic standpoint is the very factor which leads to the intensive relation between the unreliable narrator and impled author. To sum up, this dissertation is supposed to lift the hypocritical mask of the unreliable narrator and, at the same time, to clarify the moral stance of the implied author so as to make it clear that Lolita is not a literary work which gives up moral judgments willingly but a complex one with multiple narrative effects.
Key Words: Lolita; unreliable narrator; implied author; narrative strategies

摘要：小说《洛丽塔》是由俄裔美国作家弗拉基米尔•纳博科夫创作的当代文学经典之作。因为本身模糊的道德观以及作者立场而备受非议。本文将以韦恩•C•布斯的小说修辞学理论为依据来分析作者和不可靠叙述者各自的叙事策略，并以此澄清本作品模糊的道德观。论文由四部分组成：首先，本文作者将简单介绍弗拉基米尔•纳博科夫和《洛丽塔》这部小说。接下来，作者将详细阐述《小说修辞学》一书中的作者与隐含作者、叙述者和不可靠叙述者之间的相互关系，着重分析隐含作者与不可靠叙述者之间的关系。接下来的部分将由两章组成：第三章分析不可靠叙述者引起读者同情的叙事策略；第四章讨论隐含作者消解这种同情的手段，并揭示隐含作者敌对的立场是造成他与不可靠叙述者之间紧张关系的关键原因。总的来说，这篇论文旨在揭露不可靠叙述者伪善的嘴脸，同时澄清隐含作者的道德立场，以此来说明《洛丽塔》并不是一部主动放弃道德判断的作品，而是有着多重叙事效果的复杂文本。
关键词：洛丽塔；不可靠叙述者；隐含作者；叙事策略

Nabokov was born on 22 April, 1899 in St. Petersburg to a wealthy and prominent family. He was the oldest son of a liberal lawyer and a noble woman with an artistic heritage. Growing up in such an aristocratic family, Nabokov had a remarkable childhood. “His parents talked about the current events, politics and academic topics with him when they were eating, employed tutors from France, Britain, German and Russia for him and helped him to carry out systematic training on swimming, riding, swordplay, dancing and music” (Wang, 2008:6).