The Tragic Flaw of Lowlita

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i was reading an article about how to lose a guy in ten days i don't know if you remember that gem from two thousand two or three lose a guys in ten days yeah i did um but that like the terrible crassness of that premise where like this woman wants to write an art and then this guy wants to make money so he's gonna date a girl for ten days. A review when the book came out kind of took the tragic comedy element of lowlita in stride right because people can have all kinds of tragic flaws according to navikov. I could have a tragic flaw where i just like pie too much, says Navikov.

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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