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Re: VN/Dostoevsky--rape of Lolita (fwd)
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** I am not sure we want to go into the technicalities of what
distinguishes "sex with a minor" from "rape," in Lolita's case or in
general -- I half expect to hear from the Feds any minute now -- but, like
Beth, in this particular instance I truly fail to see the difference. Of
course HH rapes Lolita at the Enchanted Hunters. GD**
From: Rob Aguirre <rob@alltel.net>
Maybe sex with a minor, but rape?
> From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
> Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:30:11 -0800
> To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: VN/Dostoevsky--rape of Lolita (fwd)
>
> From: Susan Elizabeth Sweeney <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
>
> I'm not quite sure that I understand Walter Miale's question. Certainly,
> Humbert committed an act of statutory rape upon Lolita at the Enchanted
> Hunters. (I don't think the revisionists of the novel's timeline have
> doubted that central incident yet, have they?)
>
> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> Associate Professor of English
> Holy Cross College
> ssweeney@holycross.edu
>
>
> <<< Donald Barton Johnson <chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu> 1/ 8 4:30p >>>
> I found the comparison very interesting, but:
>
>> Both Humbert and the underground man are unreliable narrators, and their
>> unreliability takes on precisely the same quality. They faithfully record
>> the basic events of their respective stories; we have no reason to doubt
>> the facts they describe.
>
> What makes anyone certain that HH did not rape Lolita in The Enchanted
> Hunters?
>
> Walter Miale
>
distinguishes "sex with a minor" from "rape," in Lolita's case or in
general -- I half expect to hear from the Feds any minute now -- but, like
Beth, in this particular instance I truly fail to see the difference. Of
course HH rapes Lolita at the Enchanted Hunters. GD**
From: Rob Aguirre <rob@alltel.net>
Maybe sex with a minor, but rape?
> From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
> Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:30:11 -0800
> To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: VN/Dostoevsky--rape of Lolita (fwd)
>
> From: Susan Elizabeth Sweeney <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
>
> I'm not quite sure that I understand Walter Miale's question. Certainly,
> Humbert committed an act of statutory rape upon Lolita at the Enchanted
> Hunters. (I don't think the revisionists of the novel's timeline have
> doubted that central incident yet, have they?)
>
> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> Associate Professor of English
> Holy Cross College
> ssweeney@holycross.edu
>
>
> <<< Donald Barton Johnson <chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu> 1/ 8 4:30p >>>
> I found the comparison very interesting, but:
>
>> Both Humbert and the underground man are unreliable narrators, and their
>> unreliability takes on precisely the same quality. They faithfully record
>> the basic events of their respective stories; we have no reason to doubt
>> the facts they describe.
>
> What makes anyone certain that HH did not rape Lolita in The Enchanted
> Hunters?
>
> Walter Miale
>