Lolita... discuss (possible spoilers) (10)

2 Name: Bookworm : 2007-09-26 20:49 ID:0u5STSE7

Pale Fire is a lot more difficult to get through, as it's in the style of a poem accompanied by notes on the poem. Very difficult; I gave up trying to read it until I'm at a higher reading level. I suggest Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading instead; much more readable, but also interesting.

I loved Lolita. It is the finest work of prose I have ever read. You could argue that Lo lures Humbert, but you must keep in mind the unreliable narrator: I personally feel that Humbert portrays it this way to absolve himself of guilt. Though I sympathize with his situation, he was still morally responsible to stop the childish advances Lo made on him, if they even really existed. As a foolish young girl, Lo did not know what she was doing, if she even knew anything.

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