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In reply to the discussion: The Real Lolita [View all]

TeeYiYi

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7. I thought the one you posted...
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 02:44 PM
Dec 2014

...conveyed the horror more than the one I found. It seems to be a more thorough (albeit somewhat plagiarized) examination of the complete story which includes a reference to the article from 2005 by *Alexander Dolinin.

I got the impression that Alexander Dolinin credited Nabokov with shining a light on the case of Sally Horner by hiding references and paying homage to her throughout his book. He seems to imply that without Lolita, the world may never have known Sally's tragic story. I might be inclined to agree with that assessment, though I wouldn't go so far as to suggest that it was Nabokov's original intent.

*Alexander Dolinin holds a PhD from Leningrad State University (1977) and is Professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he specializes in 19th and 20th century Russian literature. He is the author of many articles in both Russian and English on Nabokov. His contributions to Zembla are an article on Otchayanie (Despair) and Dostoevsky, an earlier version of which was read at the International Nabokov Conference in Nice in 1995, an article on "Signs and Symbols", an article on a real-life source for Lolita, and a chapter from his book Istinnaia zhizn' pisatelia Sirina: Raboty o Nabokove (St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii Proekt, 2004) on Pushkinian subtexts in Invitation to a Beheading.

TYY

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The Real Lolita [View all] ismnotwasm Dec 2014 OP
Posting to for later JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #1
I have never understood chervilant Dec 2014 #2
I think the prose and the times and the author ismnotwasm Dec 2014 #3
A great find. Thanks for posting it ... and in regards to the conversation ... Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2014 #4
Absolutely. And it's also important not to take the protagonist as a literal reflection nomorenomore08 Jan 2015 #14
How is Lolita a "paen to pedophilia"? cemaphonic Jan 2015 #13
Another source... TeeYiYi Dec 2014 #5
That is very interesting ismnotwasm Dec 2014 #6
I thought the one you posted... TeeYiYi Dec 2014 #7
Yes. ismnotwasm Dec 2014 #8
The news stories at the time of her rescue... TeeYiYi Dec 2014 #9
Oh puke ismnotwasm Dec 2014 #10
Yeah, that is gross - talking about her almost like she was a willing participant in her abduction. nomorenomore08 Jan 2015 #16
wanna understand somthing mehdialgerian Jan 2015 #11
Well, yes there is ismnotwasm Jan 2015 #12
Um, no shit... nomorenomore08 Jan 2015 #15
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