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To: Borges

The book is supposedly a parable or allegory about the United States and Europe. Lolita being America.


3 posted on 06/03/2015 8:49:31 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: miss marmelstein

Yep. An inversion of all the Henry James novels where a naive American goes to Europe and is corrupted by decadent Europeans.


4 posted on 06/03/2015 8:50:26 AM PDT by Borges
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