He invokes the Greek relationship between okay adults and children like that modern society is kind of imposed all these limitations. I feel like that's kind of the at least here at the beginning that's like the core excuse that he cites. He comes across someone who reminds him of that person and then any other inappropriateness is irrelevant because of his desire for that person. She's got a bunch of different nicknames like Lola Lola it's just kind of a combination of all those things. Part of the part of the wordplay throughout the book is like him taking her real name like and and different nicknames of hers like Dolly’s another one to vary up the
Usually books try to make you root for the protagonist. Even if he or she is flawed in some crucial way, most stories try to make you feel something for the person whose mind you're inhabiting. That is not the case in Vladmir Nabokov's Lolita.
This week we share with you an uncomfortable discussion about how it feels to read a book told from the perspective of an unrepentant pedophile—how do you feel about him? How do we feel about him? How does he feel about him? The difficult subject matter is just one of the things that has earned Lolita its place in the literary canon.
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