/lit/ - Literature

>>7429668
>>7430077

this -- >>7429674 >>7429987

In all honesty, if you don't like it then you aren't reading carefully enough. I literally am finishing a course that covered this book this week.

Nabokov was a huge proponent of careful reading and aesthetic, consequently he dropped many very subtle hints as to what is actually going on IF you pay attention.

For instance, the couch scene is actually really fucked up. Humbert Humbert makes it out to be as if she came onto him, but during the scene he frames it like a movie (a farce), and -among other things- he CLAIMS that she never said or did anything to protest but LATER states that she got up to pick up the ringing phone that he had UNTIL THAT MOMENT not heard.

In other words, he basically semi-molests her and is so deluded by his lust that he doesn't even hear anything from her until the moment he's broken from his trance by the phone that SHE picks up.

There's even some overt instances where it shows how she's crying and abused. By the 2nd road trip the only reason she's more promiscuous is (like many abused children) they develop fucked up ideas of sexuality, and she wants to manipulate her way out of his control.

Its a fantastic book, and beautiful written, one of my top 5 easily.

>>7430042
Go away and stop shit posting please, you're b8 thread already failed.

>>7159128
I see your qt

And raise you a waifu