You’re defending this as exemplary art?
Lolita is a masterpiece. It’s one of the great American novels about America.
I love these informed opinions from those who’ve never read the book. The reviewer says that the book seduced him into agreeing with Humbert Humbert and they just accept his opinion as if it were gospel.
I did read Lolita and I found it to be excellently written, all the more impressive because English wasn’t Nabokov’s first language.
As I recall the book gives us a view of Humbert’s internal dialogue and in that fashion he becomes familiar. But unless you suspend your moral compass you see that there’s a slow motion train wreck in progress with Humbert at the controls. You see Humbert rationalizing his behavior. If you willingly accept his version of events you’d better stay off of a jury because you’re liable to be snowed by a guilty defendant.