Yulia Vorotyntseva answers “is this apprpriate for a 16 year old to read?”

Annabelle asked this question about Lolita:

is this apprpriate for a 16 year old to read?

Yulia Vorotyntseva I first read it when I was eleven or twelve. I think it was easier for me to see the girl's prospective because I was about the same age.

For me, it wa…moreI first read it when I was eleven or twelve. I think it was easier for me to see the girl's prospective because I was about the same age.

For me, it was a far less dangerous read than many of the books we read at school about that time (e.g. "The Three Musketeers", "The Hero of Our Time", "Makar Chudra" etc., where rape and abuse are written in an "appropriate" and appealing way). Lolita is not a seductive read. The main character is unequivocally gross and disgusting, and the life of his muse is utterly miserable and unattractive.

However, I am not sure how this book would look from a boy's (or even a man's) prospective, for whom Lolita may indeed appear a mysterious "nymphette" rather than a reckless child who wanted to spite her unloving mother and got trapped in the fire she started.(less)

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Nouha Bouazizi Being a male or a female reader does NOT define the way you look at this book. The story remains the same; it's just the way you think that sculpts yo ...more
Jul 01, 2018 06:16AM · flag

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