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Lolita for the age of cyber-dates
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[EDNOTE. Sandy Klein forwards a link to the following article on the
film Hard Candy. -- SES]
Childhood innocence, seen through a red mist
By Nigel Andrews
Published: June 14 2006 18:10 | Last updated: June 14 2006 18:10
[. . .] It is Lolita with a twist: Lolita for the age of cyber-dates,
"grooming" and public panic about paedophilia. The 32-year-old teacher
Jeff (Patrick Wilson) who meets the 14-year-old girl Hayley (Ellen Page)
in a cafe after some mild innuendo-swapping on the web, takes her to his
home. He is a youthful-looking Humbert Humbert. She, it becomes clear,
is a nymphet [. . .]
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film Hard Candy. -- SES]
Childhood innocence, seen through a red mist
By Nigel Andrews
Published: June 14 2006 18:10 | Last updated: June 14 2006 18:10
[. . .] It is Lolita with a twist: Lolita for the age of cyber-dates,
"grooming" and public panic about paedophilia. The 32-year-old teacher
Jeff (Patrick Wilson) who meets the 14-year-old girl Hayley (Ellen Page)
in a cafe after some mild innuendo-swapping on the web, takes her to his
home. He is a youthful-looking Humbert Humbert. She, it becomes clear,
is a nymphet [. . .]
Find this article at:
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/530aae8e-fbc4-11da-b1a1-0000779e2340,s01=1.html
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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