ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lolita, Kevin Spacey, Anagram
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As a non-native speaker, nabokov hears stuff native speakers don"t. When you grow up speaking a language, you stop hearing it. Humbert made it a condition that his confession not be published until both he and. Lolita are dead so must keep writing to prove they"re still alive. Humbert tries as hard to seduce the reader as he does to seduce lolita. Parody and pathos at the same time. Lawyer says humbert humbert is a made up name, doesn"t know that he himself is made up. Humbert says inaccurate things about butterflies to distinguish him from nabokov, who was an amateur butterfly researcher. Nabokov believed the role of the artist was not to respond to the world, to create new worlds, should remain aloof in their time. Nabokov satirizes scientizing of sex (especially freud), and the teenager question . Inspiration: ape learned to draw, drew bars of the cage. Nabokov did research on teens, hotels, and sexual perversion.
