Its pederasty and pornography.
No arguing that.
Nasty stuff..What’s your point?
A colossal bore.
I’m trying to figure out the relevance of this post at this point in time.
i’ll probably take a pass on this one.
i recently acquired ignatous donnelly’s “atlantis: the antediluvian world”. this gem was not banned, just shunned.
What passes for such then and now has been vastly different. Brooke Shields and Jodie Foster were both 10 year old whores in the movies and naked. Today, you would be more ‘hunted’ than Roman Polanski if you even suggested making such films.
Yet, then, you had to buy dirty books in seedy stores on the bad side of town, whereas today a child can accidentally google NASTY FILTHY and VERY Disturbing images of stuff so gross as to make you violently ill.
But I have no idea what makes this newsworthy today?
Wowser!
Nabokov was a great anti-Communist, his family were White Russians, and his father while in exile was murdered by Bolsheviks. His book Bend Sinister is about a Leftist Totalitarian State that promotes ‘Ekwalism’ at the point of the gun and whose dictator is shown to be an emotionally arrested man-child.
This will require an under-aged bunny with an adult pancake on its head.
“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.
Books are usually banned by people who don’t know how to read.