ENGL 227 Lecture 8: 2017-10-05 Lolita

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 227
• Professor: Merve Emre

Document Summary

What all lectures have in common: make something banal into aesthetic bliss: certain parts do not fit this idea. 212: barber is a foil for humbert, preserving son, similar to preserving lolita, displays (cid:449)he(cid:374) o(cid:374)e preser(cid:448)es a (cid:272)hild (cid:894)hu(cid:373)(cid:271)ert(cid:859)s future(cid:895) Charlotte haze: not atte(cid:374)ti(cid:448)e to charlotte(cid:859)s dead so(cid:374), lolita(cid:859)s (cid:271)rother, no(cid:448)el a(cid:271)out (cid:858)cancelled (cid:272)hildhood(cid:859, mummified child bodies, caught by t(cid:449)o (cid:858)(cid:271)lue-(cid:272)ar(cid:448)ed (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)(cid:859) at the beach, annabelle, bar(cid:271)er(cid:859)s so(cid:374) !, humbert not attentive to these children. 227 seeing lolita as an adult: sees the ruin he has done, nabokov claims she dies there. Lolita began to die the day she met humbert: does not want to let go of the illusion of lolita, while registering the loss, still desires to aestheticize her. Is this love: all loves have some cruelty, our idea of love is pure and reciprocal, always some combination of mirage and reality, cancelled children: when she dies, her child dies too.