"It's a hard book to talk about because i mean mostly because of the subject matter it's just i don't know humber humber it's not a good guy like he's he's the protagonist who you can't root for you don't want to root" "I imagine there's stuff in the book that with enough consideration you can see as analogous to other more acceptable human behavior or at least understandable human behaviorYeah like it make lowlita 26 and have them have everything else happen the same in the book and it's and it still could be creepy," she says.
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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