Posted on 09/08/2010 9:23:51 AM PDT by usalady
Vladimir Nabokov's book about the affair between a twelve-year-old girl and a middle-aged man was banned because it was considered pornography
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This will require an under-aged bunny with an adult pancake on its head.
I don't care if he's a SCIENTOLOGIST! He does a great show on Fox!
Oh, wait.. wrong thread.
“This girl’s an open page
Book marking - she’s so close now
This girl is half his age...
Temptation, frustration
So bad it makes him cry
Wet bus stop, she’s waiting
His car is warm and dry...
“Its no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabakov”
—The Police, Don’t Stand So Close To Me
People have longed told me it a great novel. I have only seen the Kubrick film; and though it contains a great performance by James Mason, the story creeps me out.
It’s an excellent book. It is only superficially a story about a pedophile and his victim. The subtext is much deeper, and Nabokov’s arguments are important. Conservatives should agree with him, while leftists should be appalled and disturbed.
Took me years to figure out that reference.
Casting an aging, overweight Shelly Winters as the mother was a master stroke. She was a great actress and made a complete fool of herself over James Mason and played the part to a T.
Indeed. Nabokov writes distinctly about control, about those who hold and wield power over others. Disturbed power, insecure and dangerous power. The right should consider him not as some pornographer, which is wholely unjust, but as an intellectual who had first-hand experience with the evil that is the left.
Read more deeply people.
Never read the book but had heard of it. I do remember someone being referred to as “the Long Island Lolita”
(Amy Fisher?)
Nabokov was a great anti-Communist....
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So, I guess that makes it okay for him to glorify pedophilia.
Not just that, but he used the pedophiliac relationship as a metaphor for the corruption of American culture by European intellectuals. It addressed the clash of modernism and postmodernism with more verve than any other book I’ve read.
Books are usually banned by people who don’t know how to read.
I thought the re-make with Jeremy Irons was great .
Good question indeed. What is her point in ANY of her myriad one-sentence, hit and run threads? This time, she can't even get the name of the blog correct. It says Examiner blog, but takes you to a book sales site.
And she never, ever gives the courtesy of a single reply.
Hmmmm. Couldn't be a BLOG-FLOGGER, could she?
Weird....
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