Let's talk about ... Lolita

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  • Alex_is_Hawks
    Alex_is_Hawks Posts: 3,499 Member
    Haven't read it, but wondering if the author is reliving his/her own abuse through the book.
    I don't think so. The author is a man and the book is from the pedo's POV.

    Considering that it was written in the 1940s/1950s, it's pretty sophisticated in its portrayal of the abused character's response to the abuse, though. I'm kind of impressed with that.

    it is pretty sophisticated in how it was written...and when you assume (of course we don't really know) that the author is attempting to suspend disbelief and has no personal experience with what he is writing about, (especially a male author writing from a young girls POV)....there is some suspension of disbelief he's attained that is remarkable; however that being said I would NEVER call it a love story....

    It's many things, but not a love story.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I read it. Def not a love story.

    Cant rem what i thought of it so it couldn't have been that shocking! :)
    In the modern world, it isn't all that shocking. It's sick, though. The narrator is a sick man and a predator.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Editors and publishing companies will put just about anything on the cover to get people to read it. Lolita is a love story, just a one-sided one. One critic probably wrote a review that compared it to the greatest love story of our time and the quote was used out of context on the cover. Happens all the time in movie ads too. Review will say so and so movie is amazingly bad. The movie ad will quote the review for calling the movie "amazing."

    I love Lolita, fantastic book. Just don't judge anything by the cover. :)
    No. I've heard this many times and not just what's written on the cover.

    The narrator claims that Lolita seduces him and it's all on her terms and people take that as fact instead of the sick mind of a predator trying to justify harming a child.

    The publishers didn't make it up or take things out of context. It's a pretty common statement about the book and a lot of people walk away from it blaming Lolita for everything and making her the villain. She was TWELVE.

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