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6617854

Anonymous Sun May 31 11:59:38 2015 No.6617854 [Reply] [Original]

Do you consider Humbert a villain?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 31 12:02:54 2015 No.6617865 I don't consider literary entities as villains or heroes because their mental processes are not even real read some Ingarden you fucking pleb

>>	Anonymous Sun May 31 12:03:05 2015 No.6617866 that would mean that nabokov had imbued the work with a moral or theme to be taken away. But he didn't, so no, he's not anything, and especially not a villain. If anything he's a nonentity in the good/bad dichotomy.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 31 13:42:25 2015 No.6618196 >>6617865 >>6617866 You guys are both idiots. Nabokov himself considered Humbert one of the most reprehensible characters in all of literature. >"hurrrr blah I read philosophy I get books blah ohh wait I'm a retard"

>>	Anonymous Sun May 31 13:43:37 2015 No.6618203 Yes

>>	Anonymous Sun May 31 13:45:31 2015 No.6618210 Everybody's a villian, from the pedophile to the priest to my mother.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 31 13:49:46 2015 No.6618224 Yes, obviously.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 31 13:52:49 2015 No.6618239 >>6617854 yes, but not simply "because he's a pedo, and thats bad"

>>	Anonymous Sun May 31 13:54:37 2015 No.6618251 >>6617865 What the hell? Seriously. Ingarden is artisanal. I recommend the antidote of Lewis' Truth in Fiction.