1/2/2024 0 Comments Instaling LolitaAnd the masterpiece is the full proof that in man the hideous mixes with the sublime.The Author would be dismayed, and precisely because the story is so faithful to the book. Lolita digs deep: these are frightening pages about the psychology of a pedophile, ambiguous from the beginning, either by the controversial moralism, or by the behavior of Humbert Humbert, the protagonist, who oscillates between sarcasm, love, dissimulation, and desire, terribly corrupting a young girl and installing in our heads the infamous doubt: has he really corrupted? The mere questioning is the confession of immorality that inhabits our minds. And that is not the only reason why the work shines: Nabokov teaches the pairs of his century that writing about moral corruption does not demand the corruption of the language. Nabokov’s prose, in Lolita, is endowed with the body that the English language seems to lack. For I open Lolita and, repeating what I said a few days ago: one page is enough to perceive myself before a great writer, one page is enough to impress me with wonderful, elegant prose, brilliant in style and powerful in content. Whatever: my mind suffers from this unbearable need for judgment I do not. And I simply do not understand some stones thrown by Nabokov, as in Dostoevsky in particular: I remain on the wall judging them envious or expressing intellectual honesty. Then, interviews, like that of the Paris Review, consolidated the image I have in mind of him: a giant, but of an arrogance that escapes my understanding. His Lectures on Russian Literature have given me a very strong and ambiguous impression. Vladimir Nabokov is an author who shakes me like few others.
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