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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:30:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kellie Dawson <hailstonedawson@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: kr46@cornell.edu
Subject: Re: Humbert's guilt etc.
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
So true! Furthermore: Lyne's film shows Lolita enjoying sex with Humbert after
that first morning at the Enchanted Hunters (something Nabokov does NOT do).
This goes a long way toward lessening Humbert's criminality by implying that
Lolita was a willing participant in her captivity.>
> Both film versions play down both HH's criminality and his psychiatric
> history. Both make him too "light", too nice. They collude with
> paedophilia in a way
> that Nabokov himself does not.
>
> Anthony Stadlen
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