Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

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This podcast started as a new year's resolution. That was two years ago. We got to keep this thing going. So Andrew, you read the book this week and what we do each week for any new listeners is one of us reads the bookUsually they kind of explain it to the other person and the other person asks obnoxious questions. Hopefully we all learn a little bit and maybe are entertained maybe.

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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