The Importance of Keeping an Open Mind About People

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The American life segment took these people who that is what they had a physical reaction to and they just they are they hate it. It does a lot to engender sympathy at least for these people you know this subset of that of that subset. i find myself already wanting to walk a very fine line because you start the you don't want to not have any sympathy for those guys right um but the second that you have just an ounce too much for anyone with that perclivity it feels easier to defend them should something happen. I think nabukov is doing everything he can to make this guy as repulsive as he is there's a whole different side to humbert than we're used

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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