Vladimir Nabokov Himself
The writer's job is to get the main character up in a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them. -Vladimir Nabokov Hello again!! It's time for my fifth and final blog post about Lolita. For this, I had no idea what to write about. However, I figured, why not bring it back, and focus the blog on who created the novel? So today, I'll be talking about a few excerpts I find interesting from an interview I found on YouTube with Vladimir Nabokov on the the show "Close Up" on CBC in 1950. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldpj_5JNFoA *** Interviewer One: "Some would call [the book] 'a satire on sex', a 'mirror of a human frailties', another called it a cutting expose of American adolescence and shabby materialism. Is that so? Is that what you were intending?" Nabokov: "No, no I don't think so. I don't wish to touch hearts, and I don't even want to affect minds. What I want to produce is that little ...
