You did sympathize with him at the very end right?
>>25301211Nah Nabokov is an un-individuated hack who never left the dreamscape
>>25301211I identified with Dolores. She actually had wild sexual desires but she didn't fully express them due to social norms.
>>25301211Not really, I think he got exactly what he deserved. Humbert I think was meant to be insufferable and pretentious. That's why he gets cucked by an alpha pedophile who is basically the same except more successful. Maybe it's a little sympathetic how his pedophilia stemmed from a childhood love who died young. The moment at the end where he realizes he ruined Dolores' life and never even really cared about her is a beautiful moment of self awareness but it never made me feel bad for him. I don't think I'd even feel bad for myself in a similar situation where I've fucked up so bad
>>25301211I am not a pedophile, and I don't find it amusing to pretend I am.
>>25301211At the end?
>>25301211Nabokov is a good writer but I can't get over the feeling there's something missing in all his work
I'm going to use this thread to ask if you guys think he killed Charlotte or if it was really an accident
>>25301650He was pretty honest about planning to kill her to have Dolores all to himself so I don't see why he'd lie or delude himself about actually doing it. Also I think there'd have been more of an investigation if it wasn't a clear cut case of a lady getting hit by a car.
When I bought my copy of lolita from Barnes & Noble the cashier was an older black woman. She gave me a strange look and said something like "oh, this book.." I feigned ignorance. I said I didn't know what the book was about and was only buying it because I heard it was a classic. She said it was a classic and that it was very well written, but that it's "strange" and probably couldn't be made today. Cute interaction
>>25301612Perfect way to describe it.
>>25301448my condolences for being a 5
>>25301211the only thing i find sympathetic is that his pedophilia was tied to his lost love from his youth. he could still get laid with women though so its not like he could only get hard to children
>>25301650it was a happy coincidence
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>>25302510I think the cover was actually supposed to evoke the image of lips, but yours is funnier
>>25301211yes, along with the beginning and the middle
I sympathized with him in the beginning and middle, but the end is meant to shift your sympathy to dolores herself. the narrative of Humberts point of view and his artistic narcissism fades away with his anticlimactic revenge.
