There's this weird sense of like the word ratification is interesting the term elected paradise is interesting what if there's something he said earlier on that when he starts talking of when he first used the word nymphet. When people were taking it face value i think those are a viewer named robertson davis who kind of agreed with humbert in the sense that the child corrupted him rather than vice versa. It's almost it's almost shifting blame on to the nyMPhet, says Namikav. "The desire is what tortures everyone else"
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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