The Perverse Desire of a Dude

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He's driven by desire is it a perverse desire yes but there are plenty of other stories where dude wants a girl and does a bunch of stuff together. He probably doesn't want you to sympathize with him he's not trying to make him more palatable or anything like that. It's the type of story where you show something dark and bad in human nature and present opportunities to find similarities to other behavior we kind of said that earlier right Like if you if you want to reduce it he’s driven by desire and i think um but i also it's tricky right because he doesn't feel sympathy for his character.

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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