The Happiness of Humbert

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Navikov was more renowned for or more interested in even as a professor language and structure than like more old-fashioned character development. His his trilingual nature may have given him a penchant for being interested with how people talk and how thoughts are structured. There is no other bliss on earth comparable to that of fondling a nymphethian chanted traveler stands as it were beyond happiness.

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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