What was the author trying to convey with this book?

>>9436155
>What was the author trying to convey

a. self-insert character is tall, dark, handsome
b. fuck yea this grown-up little girl is hot
c. the author's delusion destroys the world
d. all of the above

>>9436155
That beautiful prose style can get you to feel sympathy for a hebephile.

>>9436155
That there's an innate tragic element to falling in love, since we can't crystallize that perfect image we have of a person, can't keep them that way forever, and can't ever fully realize our need for something sublime and transcendent in our lives.

It's Humbert's attempt to capture Dolores (pin the butterfly, as it were) in a way that renders their love story emotionally fulfilling and orderly and formally balanced, which is exactly how we want our real lives to work. The poignancy comes in where the mask falls away, and we realize that we really don't get what we want in this regard, and can't ever.

The utilization of unreliable narration and humor to elegantly tell a story concerning a topic that makes most people squirm.

>>9436293

Aside from constantly hyping himself up and maybe portraying Lolita as more willing than she was, how was HH an unreliable narrator?

>>9436155
>trying

>>9436155
That it's okay to fuck some children

>>9436155
>"Seva ascendes, pulsata, brulans, kitzelans, dementissima. Elevator clatterans, pausa, clatterans, populus in corridoro. Hanc nisi mors mihi adimet nemo! Juncea puellula, jo pensavo fondisime, nobserva nihil quidquam"

what did he mean by this

>>9436404
multilingual fags love showing off their autism

>>9436155
It's a literary exercise. Nabokov was using unreliable narration and beautiful prose to attempt to convince us of the moral ambiguity of something that's unambiguously evil. The book is basically a trick.

I feel like all the people who suck the dick of the prose in Lolita are literal 19 year olds who aren't that well read. There's better out there.

>>9436547
This is where you provide examples (none of this, "you'll just shit on it anyway", or "not gonna spoonfood you" bullshit).
Also, it's not wrong to praise something simply because there is better prose.

>>9436547
Shut the fuck up dude. Yes, there's better out there, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still very good prose. Dismissing praise for something beautiful because more beautiful works exist is absolutely retarded.

>>9436155
predators can sometimes be charming, maybe enough to inspire sympathy

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tl;dr "What a country!"

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>>9436299
>aside from being an unreliable narrator, how was HH an unreliable narrator

>>9436267
>>9436547
>>9436556
I thought the whole point was that the prose is cringeworthy and overflowery because Humbert is a cringeworthy man himself, calling girls little angels and shit like that. It's like porn fiction written by a fedora who is trying really hard.

>>9437977
There's a really thin line between overwrought and beautiful, and Lolita's on the right side of that line. It's over-the-top and ridiculous, but never cringe-worthy.

>>9436155
Spanish people are gay

>>9436155
>"The only convincing love story of our century."
Who at vanity fair wrote this? Please tell me it wasn't Hitchens.

>>9436155
i want to fuck the little girl

Jesus Christ, you idiots. Dolores and Humbert are completely beside the point of the book, which is an homage to silly naive America in contrast with greasy old perv Europe

>>9436288
beautifully said.

>>9436288
Top notch.

>>9436299
That cathartic and climactic meet-up with Dolores at the end never "actually" happens. The dates don't line up. He literally invented it to make for a better story.

>>9438425
>books can only have one meaning

Who made you, and why?

>>9438479
Also the story of his "original nymphet" that he used to justify his perversion is likely made up.
The details are almost directly stolen from Poe, another hebephile.

>>9438493
Godjesus. To fuck shit up.

an honest story about
love -> dependence -> paranoia -> tragedy
written beautifully