What is with all the recent articles Millennial bashing?
I would bet it would sell as a video game.
Please tell me there’s not a Lolita app already?
If it was a story about an older man and an underage male, it would not only get published, they’d make a movie and it would get the oscar.
We, as a society, simultaneously suppress depictions of sexuality while telling ourselves how enlightened we have become, as ‘shacking up’ becomes the norm, hardly anybody gets married, and ‘hooking up’ is a euphemism for casual sex.
Were we better off being less offended and more inhibited personally?
I think John Mortimer, who most of us know as the author of Rumpole, fought for the publication of Lolita as well as Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
Lolita is an awful story, and it certainly should not be on the required reading list for high school students. It has no redeeming value that I can discern; I found the book quite sickening and I felt rather dirty. I am definitely not the better for having had to read it.
I realize this is satire, but the current crop of students can’t interpret ants at a picnic without seeing everything through a distorted ideological lens comprised of platitudes, fallacies, and outright lies.
Nabokov is too difficult for them.
While Lolita is well known, it isn’t all Nabokov wrote.
My favorite is Speak Memory.
The book had been banned for a time in Britain and France and other countries.
It was originally rejected by all major US publishers and had to be published by a French house that specialized in erotica.
Lolita was only allowed in America because of the "Howl" trial a few years before caused censorship to crumble.
So no, we aren't that different from how things were back then.
I agree, although I thought Lolita was one of the creepiest books I ever read...I thought Humbert Humbert was a truly nauseating character, and I do remember that, not unsurprisingly, this book gave license to all the elderly lit teachers in the world to come onto their female students.
So while I think millennials may be a lnutty in some ways, this time I agree with them.
I have never heard of this novel before. But I have to wonder if the Japanese Lolita culture, which has some following here, is related. Lolitas are women who dress like extremely frilly little girls. Kind of disturbing, IMO.
Lolita was trash when I went to school. Nothing has changed that
No I’m not a millienial
I loved Lolita. But I don’t expect it to even be in libraries any more. But Lolita is nothing compared to Gone with the Wind, which I just finished. That book had better hide itself. The SJW people will not like what they see in that book. Darky is one of the kinder terms.
A book and movie I have never seen, although I have it on DVD. But I did read CANDY! Never saw the movie either.