There really aren't sex scenes or at least not many of them like it's so coded in a euphemism yeah that you don't get a lot of graphics stuff that would I mean as uncomfortable as those book made me sometimes like it. Humbert is living in Charlotte Hayes's house with Charlotte and Dolores. Lelita goes to camp Charlotte declares her undying love for Humbert they get marriedOkay she's romantic on some plates drowning her what at one point like he just contemplates murdering her so he can be alone with her daughter oh and he doesn't do it because he thinks he's such a great guy that he just can't murder somebody like he couldn't live
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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