His mother died when he was three then a key love interest when he was a teen - the two overlapped somehow.
I think that the way that Nabokov writes gives Humbert a sympathetic chartacter, but when you unscramble his choice of words and her reactions, it is quite plain that he was an abuser. reading back over it a second time, it kinda leaps off the page at you.
There is a certain amount of humour in 'Ulysses' - very human element.
I have restarted a second draft on 'Lolita' as the first one wasn't making a lot of sense - hopefully, I can see the wood from the trees :-)
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Date: 2016-01-27 04:52 pm (UTC)From:I think that the way that Nabokov writes gives Humbert a sympathetic chartacter, but when you unscramble his choice of words and her reactions, it is quite plain that he was an abuser. reading back over it a second time, it kinda leaps off the page at you.
There is a certain amount of humour in 'Ulysses' - very human element.
I have restarted a second draft on 'Lolita' as the first one wasn't making a lot of sense - hopefully, I can see the wood from the trees :-)