The Importance of Humbert's Life

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There's nothing that can excuse anything that he did so separate is it possible for you to assess like the quality of the book separate from your distaste and like complete revulsion at humbert oh yeah i think that the book is is really great. Even though you don't sympathize with humbert and i don't think you're meant to sympathizing with humbert like the stuff that he says make it a really entertaining book to read after he has died.

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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