Men Explain Lolita To Me

[Mark Kohut]

Yeahp. One--I--can sound silly defending fictional " truth" in such a writer. so it be. We differ. Nabokov's LOLITA would be nothing but a stylistic exercise if he did not believe and show in the novel awareness that pedophilia IS pedophilia. My perhaps lame remark on him " getting what he deserves" was, if I remember correctly, a verbal allusion to Humbert's very words as HE suggested his proper punishment, if you will remember.

Totally amoral or whatever as you position re Nabokov , you will need to explain Humber's recognition scene and subsequent awareness. 

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> On Dec 17, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Ray Easton <raymond.lee.easton at gmail.com> wrote:
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> When I say 'Nabakov does not care a fig...' I am not referring to what the man in his "non-fic life" did or did not believe.  (I don't care about such things.)  I mean that his novels have no moral viewpoint and present no moral lessons.
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> HH "gets what he deserves" -- you sound like John Ray, Jr., PhD.
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>> On December 17, 2015 5:35:40 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> yeah, Nabokov greatly dissed 'morality' in fiction all his non-fic life...
>> but he did believe in themes and human goodness and badness..
>> 
>> some take Nabokov's constant dissing of 'morality' as part-act (against
>> lousy, sentimental poshlost fiction) and part unreliable narrator...
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>> Anyway, he recognized love and death and themes related to and life
>> and sense perceptions and
>> so much more in his own
>> and in others' fictions.
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>> 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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>>> Ray
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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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