Andrew himself uses the word jury in a couple of at a couple of points. He really truly sincerely thinks that he is a good guy but he is consumed by his love for uh this the term is his nymphettes. Nymphettes are young girls and we're talking like 10 11 12 okay who are super sexy to him. How old was he at that point? Um I don't think it's exactly me. But he was an adult. He was very young okay.
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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