Lolita
I felt it was something I should read and had never got round to. It was on special offer at the bookshop so I grabbed a copy. After all, I am a liberally minded sort, have read how it is a much misunderstood volume, and I really liked American Psycho so am not usually prone to squeamishness.
I got 60 pages in, felt physically sick, and decided to leave reading it until Eve is much older. Like when she is aged 18.
How did that happen?
4 years ago
2 comments:
It's an incredible book! Particularly considering he was writing in one of his second languages (the first being Russian). Clever and much misunderstood, as you say.
I accept that is is well written, and I rather like Nabakov in any other guise.
A colleague told me that the whole point of it is that is it uncomfortable, but it is just too uncomfortable to read as the mother of a girl.
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