The Monstrous Person

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He becomes more and more unhinged as the book continues yeah of course so he kills quilty and then is finally arrested for driving on the wrong side of the road. Lolita dies in childbirth at the age of 17 okay that's kind of it neat I guess uh, it's it's a challenging book into okay it's taking do you and it's a hard book to talk about because like we said a lot of the time the discussion around a book like this would be about how does the author put us into the mind of this monstrous person? He says there was a um this made me think of a this American life episode from a while back that talked to a bunch

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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