Nabokov quietly lets us know that Lolita cries herself to sleep every night. Being in love is ultimately no excuse for monstrous actions, even if Humbert Humbert insists on his pitiable and helpless thralldom to a middle-school dame sans merci. In our cultural mythology, love doesn’t just conquer all, but it justifies all sorts of bad behavior, too. In fact, the novel offers - among much else - a critique of the privileged status that Western society has accorded to romantic passion since the Middle Ages. Through the power of Nabokov’s art, the book’s narrator, a middle-aged man fixated on a pubescent girl, does all he can to present himself as the besotted victim in a doomed romance. Make sure this fitsby entering your model number. Henry and the Paper Route Henry Huggins Collection Beverly Cleary Humor Credits Readability Age Range 8 to 12 Publisher HarperTrophy, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Awards Unknown Year Published 2014 Book Review This book has been reviewed by Focus on the Family’s marriage and parenting magazine. Consider an example from recent literature: I find Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” funny, complex, beautifully written, endlessly rereadable. Henry Huggins Collection 49.99 Ramona Quimby Collection 59.99 Ramona The Brave 12.99 Enhance your purchase About this item This fits your. In the arts, this can result in near hysteria at the discovery of sexism, racism or exoticism in the masterpieces of earlier ages. Absolutism, whether political, aesthetic or religious, leads to favoring those who conform to our beliefs and condemning everyone else.
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