Anybody else find it suspicious that Nabokov wrote so many books

why are there so many books about criminals and murderers?
are writers mostly criminals expressing themselves or do they try to make people buy their book by putting titillating things in them?

It's ephobilia, and its far more common than you might think. 18+ being the acceptable age to sexualise women is a very recent and artificial phenomena.

Probably deserved to die a painful death regardless famalam.

>>9779999
10-12 year olds are pre-pubescent

Raid?
Raid.

>>9779980

Nabokov grad student here, short answer:

When writing Lolita, Nabokov was very clear in his letters that the point was a poor innocent girl losing her childhood (recall she loses her inner child in a literal way. Idyllic childhood has always been a major theme in Nabokov).

After Lolita though things get interesting. Nabokov was a perfectionist used to writing for a small audience of educated Russian exiles– he could usually predict how his novels would be interpreted. With Lolita though, he was totally caught off guard. For Nabokov, Lolita was in a sense a failure– it was radically misinterpreted as pure porn. Google some of the later and foreign Lolita covers and you'll get the picture.

Nabokov then gets obsessed with trying to fix his mistake, to manage to write about the topic of pedophilia in a successful way. So it reappears. It's in transparent things (much of which is self-parody.) As he gets old and senile it starts to obsess him. I can't really stand rereading much of Swiss Nabokov.

As for whether Nabokov was himself a pedophile, probably not. He was, however, a pretty notorious womanizer, and may have had sex with underage women.

i find it suspicious that he wrote so many books

He was larping for the lulz. He wanted to write a novel on Siamese twins but Vera stopped him. He studied America, its prudishness and garish advertising, and thought it would be amusing to throw a bomb in the culture war. He succeeded beyond his wildest expectations and later crawled up his own asshole and died.

F.

>>9780211
Buckle up boyos we've got a "Nabokov grad student here" lmao

Yeah, I'm sure and Bertolt Brecht and Dostoyevsky were serial killers. People write about what they know !!11

>>9780838

His post was fine. If anyone sounds like the try hard here it's you.

>>9780838

He gave what will probably be the most cohesive post this thread will receive and that's what you took away from it? That he prefaced his statement by saying he studied the author in grad school? I don't remember this board every celebrating modesty. Don't be such a complete faggot.

>>9780870

That anon is an obvious pseud try hard.
>Buckle up boyos
cringe.exe

>>9780211
You're talking out of your ass. Pedophilic themes were apparent on many writings he worked on before Lolita, although many of them were published on a much later date.

Lolita did not really cause controversy, although some countries interpreted it as pornographic. Nabokov expected a huge controversy, but was met with none.

Nabokov was strictly monogamous, and not a womanizer.

>>9780838
Buckle up boyos we've got a "Buckle up boyos we've got a "Nabokov grad student here" lmao" lmao

>>9780838
Haha, you said, "Buckle up boyos we've got a 'Nabakov grad student here' lmao."

>>9779980
hmmmm, now that you mention it monsieur, it is rather suspicious. i will notify the police immediately

>>9780010
Dolly was twelve. She was pubescent. Humbert even describes this as the perfect age.

>>9779980

tearing down taboos is something a thinker must do
morality is like a wall that blocks freedom of thought

Read beyond Lolita and you will realise that he was actually a pedo. It's pretty obvious.

>>9780838
Bugs, easy on the carrots