[wideawake]

Correct.

In the novel, she is is a normal kid who does not act or dress provocatively.

It is the mentally ill narrator who misinterprets her every word and gesture to justify his predation.

[CaptainK]

I don’t disagree with this opinion piece however, Nabokov wrote the screenplay for the movie and got an Oscar nomination for it.

[Wolfie]

I think Spears and Perry are pushing 30.

[miss marmelstein]

None of these cheap hookers are Sue Lyons - who practically steals the movie.

[oblomov]

The book was not just a simple tale of a sexual abuser of a child. I read it also as an allegory of the relationship of Europe and the US, intellectuals vs. mass culture, the postmodern vs. the high modern. Nabokov described the fault lines in postwar American culture.

[x]

We are awash in Lolitas - Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry. As Ira Wells says in a New Republic piece, “at a certain echelon of pop music megastardom . . . they are all Lolitas now.”

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Katy Perry is 30. Britney Spears is 33. Miley Cyrus is 22. Though they may have started out performing in school girl uniforms they're all adults. And was Miley ever really a Lolita-type? For that matter, was Nabokov's Lolita really what we think of now as a Lolita-type?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well it is one thing to evoke fantasy. But some events such as Miley Cyrus shoving her butt and rubbing against men’s crotches would cross a line, in my opinion.

[JoeProBono]

April 02, 2010 WHAT EVER BECAME OF "LOLITA" ....SUE LYON? http://www.stumptownblogger.com/2010/04/what-ever-became-of-lolita-sue-lyon.html

[BraveMan]

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