A woman who knows the book well emailed to say...
"i read lolita in high school. i remember not liking it, but i was 15. who knows what i'd think now. there's a derivative work, lo's diary, that i found very interesting. it was written from lolita's
perspective and covered the same period of time."
Imagine reading this book when you're around the same age as the people HH is lusting after. Aaagghh!
Anybody else read this when they were younger?
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I'm interested in reading this "Lo's Diary"...Who wrote it? (I'm sure I can find out easily). I wonder what Nab would think.
Lolita's character is a toughy. I'm gonna quote here from Richard Rorty's Introduction to Pale Fire:
[Brian Boyd] reports that among all the characters in his novels whom Nabokov admired as human beings, Lolita stood second only to Pnin. But readers of "Lolita" often have trouble getting Lolita in focus. All they seem to remember is Humbert's creature, his invention--the nymphet, rather than the little girl. So Nabokov's suggestion that she is a splendid human being is hard to take in....Then finally it all comes back: it was only Humbert who thought that he had invented Lolita...
Yes, Lolita is very hard to focus. As I recall, you get more of a sense of her in the second part.
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