#lolita vladimir nabokov

[onlyfangz]

reading lolita for the first time and im mostly shocked at how blatant it is that humbert humbert is a pedophile. dont misunderstand, i knew exactly the plot of lolita before reading lolita, however, considering a good 85-95% of the world's population seems to think that it's a romance story, and with the knowledge that HH is an unreliable narrator, i thought the pedophilia in lolita might have been easy to miss. maybe under layers of subtext you could easily glide over if you were passively reading instead of critically analysing.

but no! humber humbert, even when doing his very best to convince you otherwise, is very clearly and very deliberately a self-centered, egotistical, misogynistic, pretentious, cowardly predator, in his own goddamn words. even if you 100% take his word for everything that happens -- that delores invited his attraction, that charlotte haze was killed in a freak car accident, that all of these women were falling and fawning over him, etc., -- all of those traits still remain to be true, as told by his own hand.

you have to be one of two things to think lolita is a love story, and i hope it's that you're lazy and didn't read the book.

[punkeropercyjackson]

Hades and Persephone.Dolores and Humbert.Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf.Alina and The Darkling.Sarah and Jareth.Orihime and Ulquiorra.Mina and Dracula.Cathy and Chris Jr.Every time,no exceptions unless it's to hate on her instead,you fucking geeks take sa narratives about how men are monsters for their systematic abuse of younger women and potraying the girls as tragic heroines and turn them into 'but what if she wanted it?if she really hated him,she must've known better so that means she did and he's actually the hero for teaching her to be a real woman'.And then you have audacity to complain about there supposedly being no strong female characters who're also victims.You won't LET them be victims,you're always too focused on turning their male abusers into 'female fantasies' and screaming your head off at black women,autistic women and trans women for being 'weird and chronically online'

[samandhislostshoe]

if i hear another boy tell me that they relate to humbert because he's 'misunderstood' i swear to god i will become jennifer check

[jess-the-hyness]

Something I feel Very Strongly about is the misinterpretation of Lolita, especially Visually. I think it started about 3rd edition, or recently after the first interaction of film came out. Beyond the disaster of producing, it started a flattening of the book and message... The heart shaped glasses and seductive lollipop ("loli-pop" *gags*) just defeats any argue against the harmful nature of what Lolita has groen to. Not a terrifying look into what someone says to justify the worst, but the demonization of the victim.

Anyway, I painted over my copy in a way that I feel doesn't glorify

It's something but a silent protest even still

[addyriley]

reading the book right now & i love 💋

[autismmydearwatson]

Reading Lolita is infuriating enough (obviously) but it's so annoying to have to, every four pages, read about HH bitching about "I take advantage of teenage prostitutes, I hate women and fantasize about raping 12 year old girls........but I'm the oppressed one because society won't let me get away with it 🥺"

[eccentricallygothic]

if there was a most insufferably despicable narrator award it would go to nabokov's humbert humbert

[skrunksthatwunk]

finished lolita. ough.

[mollyandthelipstickrose]

Today on horrible remarks from adults I know:

My history & politics teacher calling 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nobakov a "Love story" unironically

[thearcaneuniversity]

finished lolita yesterday. what a disturbing, disgusting, and yet great novel. it’s been some time since a book has left me feeling this hollow.

[caktusjuice-draws]

Also I am currently reading Lolita, is anyone interested in my very angry character Analysis of Humbert or... should I shut the fuck up?

[dizzyadolly]

[virginstoner666]

writing a sequel to lolita- not because there is any conceivable way you could effectively write a continuation of the events of the story, but solely to give it the title LMAOlita

[autismmydearwatson]

[witch-apologist]

Still fucking fuming over what pedo creeps did to lolita, if theres one thing abusers are gonna do its totally buy into the worldview of an unreliable narrator

[manhatingmeanlesbianv2]

men liking the film American Beauty is the filmbro equivalent of men liking Lolita (they’re pedos)