“As for liberal, Nabokov was a staunch anticommunist and a friend of William F Buckley.”
We have RINOs who claim to be Republican, too. It is amazing how many people with hard-core liberal ideas think they are conservative because they are a hair to the right of their friends. Even Communists think of themselves as conservative.
A story of pediphilia told as a story of love is simply a story of pedophilia told to suckers who will look past the child rape aspect because they get teary-eyed. Go to court sometime and when the judge asks, “Did you have sex with that 12 year old?”, I don’t think you’ll get away with a flowery description of love that gets you off the hook.
The ‘Love Story’ angle was a marketing invention not something Nabokov said nor something the book conveys. He intended it as a metaphor for a love of Americana and the English language.
We do not want to hear about you foot fetish thing. 'K!