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more about #lolita skahammer: So is there no love here for the (fairly abstract) interpretation that the character Lolita, and Humbert's twisted romance with her, is a metaphor for... more » whynotshesaid: I love this review. Thanks for digging it up and sharing it with us. She touches on one of the reasons I love the book so much, which is that it is ... more » 5ft of fury: I just don't think I could handle this book. And I hate how some of my friends feel the need to show me the error of my ways or act as though I'm an u... more » ritualtheory: This is a wonderful consideration of what is probably my favorite novel ~ and I first read it at 12 or 13, barely a year after having been assaulted b... more » MargaretMoony: I've always loved "Lolita" because I always felt it was a portrait of a molester, not the portrait of an promiscuous child seductress. I mean, just l... more » BrilliantCorners: Is it wrong that I found Jeremy Irons' Humbert Humbert humpworthy? more » femminista: What a well-written and thoughtful review. For another look at the contemporary implications of reading Lolita, I really like Mark Grief's article fo... more » Tiger_Eye: Beautiful review. I completely agree. Lolita allows us to recognize that the world keeps going, even if, in our small piece of it, time seems to stand... more » Mayor Squeakerton: I read this book for the first time at 14 or 15. It was shocking, yes, but given at the time I had some strange sexual fixation on older men, I saw th... more » MerryLilly: I don't have much to say, but I just read Natalia's article in the link, and it's interesting and beautifully written. more » winner: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at... more » Zombie Ms. Skittles: This actually doesn't surprise me particularly. I find redemption in watching Law & Order: SVU where the persecutors are usually punished and punishe... more » clevernamehere: I'm always surprised when people who have actually read the book (not just seen the movie) see Lolita as anything resembling a sexual aggressor. I ev... more » Lymed: I don't understand the idea that we should hate or ignore a piece of literature because its name has been misappropriated. Lolita the book has little... more » AlvinaJibroni: It's kind of like how men are subject to The Female Gaze and held up to an unrealistic standard with all those suave, tall, buff, traveled, multi-ling... more » HappyLand: The thing I really object to is the sexualization of girls while maintaining this crazy virginity fetish. Miley Cyrus is sexualized, but she isn't all... more » sarasasa: Great post, sexualizing young girls is terribly harmful in a ton of ways and I find it quite sad that there are grown men here trying to justify it as... more » Pantra: The older I get, the more I believe that men's alleged drive toward very young women is more to do with patriarchal conditioning than genetics. I've s... more » clevernamehere: All of this is based on the idea that women should be so desperate for a man that they will fight each other for him while men can just wander around ... more » Agumen: Obviously we shouldn't turn children into sex symbols. But a 16 and 19 year old aren't children. They have agency, they're self-aware. You wouldn't st... more » -
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A Rave Review Of Lolita
"To be blunt, I do not love Lolita in spite of my own history; I love it, in part, because of my history." That history is fascinating, and can (and should) be read here: [The Second Pass] -
#nolita
Why Sexualizing Little Girls Sucks For Grown-Ass Women
MG Durham writes in today's Guardian that the sexualization of young girls (cf. Miley Cyrus, Emma Watson, etc., etc.) is deeply damaging for them. But western culture's Lolita fetish sucks for the legal as well as the barely. More » -
#fireofmyloins
"I Don't Wish To Touch Hearts..."
Fellow nerds! Check out this discussion with Vladimir Nabokov, shortly after Lolita's American publication. He's combative, has a heavy Russian accent, and at one point they all tacitly stand up and move to this "drawing room" set. [YouTube via BoingBoing] -
#bibliomania
Lost In Translation
Of Nabokov's Russian version of Lolita, the New Republic, in 1968, noted: "Lolita herself...is one-and-one-half inches shorter in Russian." [The New Republic] -
