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A review by itstooearlytobeababooshka
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5.0
My favorite type of writers is a writer who can treat my feelings like a marionette, and that’s why I’m calling Nabokov “a genius”. I don’t want to be misunderstood: I’ve never sympathized with Humbert. What I mean is that he made me absolutely love a book that I’ve never thought I’d love.
What made me read this book is that I’ve always wanted a deep dive into these monsters minds, whenever we hear about pedo crimes they never show us the sinners perspective but I was curious.
As I expected, their perspective was traumatizing, unordinary and inhuman. In Humbert’s case he’s sexually attracted to children but he considers himself “kinda not guilty” because he doesn’t wanna destroy their purity (and here lays the monstrosity in his mentality), he was ready to follow any way to satisfy his desires using the “I don’t want to destroy her purity” justification. He has also shown common signs of pedophilia I’ve seen in other pedos such as hating adult women(I’m not sure about this one)
I hoped to see Dolores’s perspective and her feelings about everything that happened but since the narrator is Humbert himself he -of course- thought that she was fine with it. But in the end he started having flashbacks about Dolly being an ACTUAL CHILD and her craving for the feeling of having a regular father-daughter relationship (this part broke my heart and made me hate Humbert even more).
I’m still questioning why Dolores initiated the u-know. My theory is that she had noticed his harassment during his cohabitation with her mom, and she expected worse than just harassment in the future so she’d rather cooperate than being raped against her will (either way it’s still rape because she has done it under obligatory circumstances) or she’s just done it for money (he gave her tips) so she could escape.
The girl obviously lost all her childhood purity due to abuse, she had empty eyes, used harsh language whenever spoken to, was obliged to be raped even if she was still in pain.
I hoped Humbert would kill himself but meh(did he tho?)
I still think that I’m not being fair enough to this masterpiece because its vocabulary is way advanced than mine so I may have missed some points. But I can still notice the extreme cleverness of Vladimir Nabokov for being able to build a flawless character like Humbert, and his braveness for writing such an intriguing book -when no one dared to speak about this matter- without using any +18 vocabulary.
What made me read this book is that I’ve always wanted a deep dive into these monsters minds, whenever we hear about pedo crimes they never show us the sinners perspective but I was curious.
As I expected, their perspective was traumatizing, unordinary and inhuman. In Humbert’s case he’s sexually attracted to children but he considers himself “kinda not guilty” because he doesn’t wanna destroy their purity (and here lays the monstrosity in his mentality), he was ready to follow any way to satisfy his desires using the “I don’t want to destroy her purity” justification. He has also shown common signs of pedophilia I’ve seen in other pedos such as hating adult women(I’m not sure about this one)
I hoped to see Dolores’s perspective and her feelings about everything that happened but since the narrator is Humbert himself he -of course- thought that she was fine with it. But in the end he started having flashbacks about Dolly being an ACTUAL CHILD and her craving for the feeling of having a regular father-daughter relationship (this part broke my heart and made me hate Humbert even more).
I’m still questioning why Dolores initiated the u-know. My theory is that she had noticed his harassment during his cohabitation with her mom, and she expected worse than just harassment in the future so she’d rather cooperate than being raped against her will (either way it’s still rape because she has done it under obligatory circumstances) or she’s just done it for money (he gave her tips) so she could escape.
The girl obviously lost all her childhood purity due to abuse, she had empty eyes, used harsh language whenever spoken to, was obliged to be raped even if she was still in pain.
I hoped Humbert would kill himself but meh(did he tho?)
I still think that I’m not being fair enough to this masterpiece because its vocabulary is way advanced than mine so I may have missed some points. But I can still notice the extreme cleverness of Vladimir Nabokov for being able to build a flawless character like Humbert, and his braveness for writing such an intriguing book -when no one dared to speak about this matter- without using any +18 vocabulary.