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As a result, that left a vacuum for decades of readers to misinterpret Lolita. It allowed for a culture of teen-temptress vamping that did not account for the victimization at the novel’s core. Sixty years on, many readers still don’t see through Humbert Humbert’s vile perversions, and still blame Dolores Haze for her behavior, as if she had the will to resist, and chose not to.
Susan Albert
Maybe because the satire is flawed
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
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