'Nabokov often forewarned “Freudians, keep out” when they came to his novels, but “lesbians, keep out” would be just as appropriate.'
”. And to a certain extent, I buy Castle’s theory, too. However, Highsmith’s novel was published a year before Nabokov’s, and it’s very unlikely that he wouldn’t have been aware of it. And so, the implication here — that Nabokov parodied a popular lesbian love story for the purpose of his paedophile’s confessions, thereby conflating lesbianism and paedophilia — isn’t a very savoury one.
"Nabokov anticipates that the 'sensitive gentlewomen of the jury' have stopped reading by the time Lolita’s forced into pregnancy and a never-ending sentence of heterosexuality. But I’m still here. Although I feel like I’m standing in a movie theatre, long after the credits have rolled and the cleaners have come in to sweep up the popcorn; I still remain. Why?"
Lolita’s childhood, pre-Humbert, was peppered with what he calls “sapphic diversions”, and when he forces their first kiss, her use of tongue — ”a comical refinement” — leads Humbert to believe that “she had been coached at an early age by a little Lesbian”. Lolita also isn’t into boys. She makes that clear when she’s made to socialise with them at her sedate girls’ school.
While Humbert began his confession with an address to the “gentlemen and women of the jury,” by the end of the novel, the latter are no longer addressed. Nabokov anticipates that the “sensitive gentlewomen of the jury” have stopped reading by the time Lolita’s forced into pregnancy and a never-ending sentence of heterosexuality. But I’m still here.
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