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From: Mark Spyrison <spiro@iAmerica.net>
Surely our esteemed Mr. Williams will acknowledge that Mr. Nabokov never
implied that he approved of Humbert's pedophilia. Indeed, in interviews
which followed Lolita's publication, Nabokov went to great lengths to
criticize, chastise, and otherwise dispute the various charges interviewers
intoned regarding this, not to mention the Viennese delegation he so
courageously condemned. No doubt many tend to confuse protagonists and
antagonists with their authors, lead characters with their creators, etc.,
but as Nabokov has made quite clear elsewhere, such charges may find their
origin in the Philistine.
--Spiro
Surely our esteemed Mr. Williams will acknowledge that Mr. Nabokov never
implied that he approved of Humbert's pedophilia. Indeed, in interviews
which followed Lolita's publication, Nabokov went to great lengths to
criticize, chastise, and otherwise dispute the various charges interviewers
intoned regarding this, not to mention the Viennese delegation he so
courageously condemned. No doubt many tend to confuse protagonists and
antagonists with their authors, lead characters with their creators, etc.,
but as Nabokov has made quite clear elsewhere, such charges may find their
origin in the Philistine.
--Spiro