I listened to the Lolita podcast and it’s a great one hosted by someone who was a fan of the work and it made an impact on her.
It seems so many interpret the story of Lolita to be a tragic love story like Kubrick and it seems Rowling. It seems as though the more sensible interpretation would be a story about abuse and power where you’re made to empathize with the unreliable narrator, Humbert. I always get an ick when I hear people say it’s a love story.
I listened to the Lolita podcast and it’s a great one hosted by someone who was a fan of the work and it made an impact on her.
It seems so many interpret the story of Lolita to be a tragic love story like Kubrick and it seems Rowling. It seems as though the more sensible interpretation would be a story about abuse and power where you’re made to empathize with the unreliable narrator, Humbert. I always get an ick when I hear people say it’s a love story.
And in the afterword Nabokov basically says that if you actually empathize with Humbert you’re an idiot 😆
Media literacy is not particularly high as of late
Sadly not a new phenomena. Does seem to be getting worse though…