Friday, September 18, 2009

To Amanda

On why Nabokov decides upon a pedophile.

Because you cannot explain the book as being the story about a man seducing his twelve-year old stepdaughter and not come off as a simplistic dimwit.

1 comment:

  1. A simplistic dimwit? Wow. If this isn't, at the heart of things, a story about a man seducing his twelve year old step daughter then what is the storyline? I realize that this story is a poetic masterpiece. I don't feel that you have give a good enough answer. What makes a pedophile better than just a plain murder or a stalker or vampire?

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