" Don't be one of those writers who sentence themselves to a lifetime of sucking up to Nabokov."
I couldn't have said it any better. "Lolita" creeped me out before I finished the first page. I only finished the book because it was assigned during grad school. One kid in class--a really big guy who looked like he could snap you in half with his little finger--broke down during one passage: we discovered quite by accident that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child. Class was dismissed that night. After that, I went back to my original assessment: "Lolita?" An ode to pedophilia, disguised as literature.
I remember reading LOLITA in 1993, and to be candid, being dazzled by the language - and English was Nabokov's third or fourth, but it's clear why the novel has continued to stoke controversy.
Great stuff, Christine and thanks for the shout out.
Truly my pleasure, Frank! Write on!
" Don't be one of those writers who sentence themselves to a lifetime of sucking up to Nabokov."
I couldn't have said it any better. "Lolita" creeped me out before I finished the first page. I only finished the book because it was assigned during grad school. One kid in class--a really big guy who looked like he could snap you in half with his little finger--broke down during one passage: we discovered quite by accident that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child. Class was dismissed that night. After that, I went back to my original assessment: "Lolita?" An ode to pedophilia, disguised as literature.
That poor guy in your class!
I remember reading LOLITA in 1993, and to be candid, being dazzled by the language - and English was Nabokov's third or fourth, but it's clear why the novel has continued to stoke controversy.