[lbo-talk] Lolita [was light of my life...]

[N P Childs]

Agreed, seeing the name now associated with a form of porn and not a great 
work of literature makes me sad the same way when I hear my kids say that 
Led Zeppelin is the music for flogging Cadillacs and The Who wrote the 
theme for CSI.

PC


>I don't like Nabokov much, but I thought Lolita was a 
>sad/lovely/interesting book. IHe not only did a great/honest/insightful 
>job with the oedipal/child molestation plot, buthe was also able to use 
>that plot to represent/examine the relationship between old/Europe and 
>young/U.S. Masterful really.
>
>Joanna

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