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If someone has decided that an action is morally wrong, you’re not going to change their mind. This makes reading The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman particularly frustrating for anyone who enjoys Nabokov’s Lolita or has ever attempted to write a piece of fiction themselves. The book reveals the true-crime basis for Lolita—the kidnapping and rape of Sally Horner whose rapist posed as her father for two years. Weinman argues that Nabokov shouldn’t have been inspired, was wrong to take tragedy and turn it into literature. She blames Nabokov for poor readers reading his Lolita as a tease instead of a victim and claims “abuse…should not be subsumed by dazzling prose; no matter how brilliant” while capitalizing on the same crime with infinitely less style or grace. Weinman handily proves the point that Horner’s tragedy is the source material, the rest is just kicking a man when he’s dead.