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

The History of Literature

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Isn't It a Tyranny of the Interpretive Prism That You Disliked When You Were in College?

The way in which nebolkov mimics de froidof the interpretation of dreams in particular, and embodies the characters that he is writing into life through the most dream like logic of any writer that's ever written. So you get the sense that like this is deeply imbedded into some fundamental ways of looking at the world.

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