nabokov

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- Paranoid <paranoid at netcom.ca> wrote:
> Okay.  Any other Nabokov readers out there?  I have read a choice few
> of his
> works now and discovered that all of his works have a young nymphite
> who, at
> some point, drags her little body over some older man's body (Lolita,
> of
> course, and Emmie in Invitation to a Beheading.  Now, before I
> thought that
> Lolita was a singular case in his work.  Are there more situations
> like
> this?  This is not a Salinger love of innocent children and if it is
> it is
> taken to a rather odd level.  Just wondering if anyone has seen any
> literature on this specifically.
> 
> 
*Pale Fire* (my favorite, actually) contains an anti-Lolita -- Shade's
daughter, an adolescent suicide. Nabokov is extraordinarily
compassionate in his characterization of her, and of her parents.

Mark



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