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In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Lolita....
In the comments section....there was this posted which cracked me up (I don't know why...I think I'm tired):
Nobokov is a brilliant stylist. He took a touching short story of pubescent sexual awakening, (perhaps his own) , tied it to Edgar Allen Poe's marriage and "Annabelle Lee" poem, grafted those to a travelogue of the Roadside of the'50s USA, blending in a chilling confession by a psychotic criminal pedophile, added a murder thriller, and made the Literary Establishment accept it as Hard Softcore High Class Literary
Porn like "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" and "The Selected Works of the Marquis de Sade."
Anyway...the article kind of sucks - but the Alternet discussion below in the comments is romping good fun =)
In the comments section....there was this posted which cracked me up (I don't know why...I think I'm tired):
Nobokov is a brilliant stylist. He took a touching short story of pubescent sexual awakening, (perhaps his own) , tied it to Edgar Allen Poe's marriage and "Annabelle Lee" poem, grafted those to a travelogue of the Roadside of the'50s USA, blending in a chilling confession by a psychotic criminal pedophile, added a murder thriller, and made the Literary Establishment accept it as Hard Softcore High Class Literary
Porn like "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" and "The Selected Works of the Marquis de Sade."
Anyway...the article kind of sucks - but the Alternet discussion below in the comments is romping good fun =)
