SS-H:
I respectfully disagree with this conclusion. While it is true that Humbert’s
first person narrative does create an illusory Lolita, the intricate patternings
and images underlying that prose, reveal quite a bit about Dolores Haze, her
real relationship with her mother, the loss of her brother and father, her
teenage dreams and her adult difficulties. This seems to me Nabokov’s
extraordinary achievement in Lolita--- and one that is often overlooked.
S.Stringer-Hye
Suellen,
Thank you for expressing your "disagreement" about a
trend of conclusions that solipsises Lolita.
Whenever I re-read the lines I just selected to post on
HH's "my Lolita" confessions (
to contrast them with the "other") I'm moved to tears, over and over. VN's
tenderness and pain speaks there,through HH, and his private "dolores", his
humanity.
And we can also reach out, through him, to every
tortured Lolita child, feeling each and everyone, one by one.
There is also his shattering
discovery about past dreams and present predicaments, of which I repeat only one
line:
through the musk and the
mud, through the dirt and the death, oh God, oh God. And what is most singular
is that she, this Lolita, my Lolita, has individualized the writer's ancient
lust, so that above and over everything there is —
Lolita.
Jansy