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395 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (A Best of HOL Episode)

The History of Literature

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'It's in the Prefaces. It's Ah, Every Arvew, It's Yo. He Hates Froud.

Nbokov, who is so subtle and so preternaturally attuned to so much, simply deals with freud in the most, in the crudest, most generalized terms. You also know that he hates froud, yes. It's amazing how often he returns to it. He comes up with new ways to a denegrate froid or freudianism,. Or readers, or critics, it's at is its wicked, its dismissive, its er intolerant. Nbokov: "It's ah, every arvew"

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