Lita: It's a book about a pedophile. Is that was that a big hang up? What is the how does the book wrestle with that? Lita: The whole framing device for this is that he is writing this memoir from jail. He doesn't want it published until he and the young girl in question are both dead. So let's find out why Andrew what is up with low Lita?
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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