Men Explain Lolita To Me

[Mark Kohut]

wrong....half-wrong...although morality may be the wrong word...
Yes, we are meant to identify---w self-disgust---with HH...as with
Highsmith's characters...

BUT he does have HH understand near the end that he stole her childhood and
of course, he gets a fitting punishment...although his own
self--judgment is wonderful

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Ray Easton
<raymond.lee.easton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Morality -- Nabakov does not care a fig about morality.  And  the novel is
> designed to force us to identity not with Lokita, but with HH.
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> On December 17, 2015 4:40:02 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
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>> we have to identify with Lolita because common human morality....to
>> read it right....
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