tfw Nabokov got away with being a blatantly massive paedophile
>Lolita
>child
>>8242593
He had a fulfilling life I think.
Yes, and Dostoevsky literally murdered a pawnbroker and Thomas Pynchon can dowse V2s with his boners.
>>8242602
>being this naïve
I don't know how Nabokov didn't get stopped on that road trip considering he never learnt how to drive. P bad way to escape if you can't start a car tbqph
Gene Wolfe executes people
no he didn't. normies hate him
>>8242613
Nabokov wasn't quite so handsome by the time he immigrated to America and he's nothing like Humbert Humbert or Jeremy Irons in interviews.
In Lolita, he describes perceiving something as beautiful then finding out later it's something else (Humbert looking out his balcony, sees girl combing hair, falls in love, girl combing hair turns out to be a hairy guy reading a newspaper). I bet he was hanging out on the Riviera, innocently enjoying his boner for some vague figure in a swimsuit, then it morphed into a 12 year old girl and in his embarassment thought up a story about pedophiles which became the incinerated Russian language short story he mentioned in the afterword. Then he moved to America, realized how fucking dangerous, crazy, and full of advertising clichés American women are while grading their at Columbia and ta-da Lolita.
>>8242666
Just because Lolita isn't autobiographical doesn't mean that he wasn't pedo.
William S. Burroughs shot his wife in the head.
>>8242670
I could say the same about you. I don't have any proof you're not a pedophile.
>>8242689
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40754944
>>8242666
You can read the short story from Russian. Penguin have it as The Enchanter.
So did Goethe, John Ruskin and Allen Ginsberg
>>8242699
You don't actually mean this is conclusive proof that Nabokov was a pedophile? All I can read of this article published by some kid named Brandon 30 years after Nabokov died is the cover page. Not about to spend my pittance on some idiot making wild inferences from literary errata.
If you've read it and do believe it conclusively makes its case, then you must be able to discuss its findings itt.
>>8242735
>some idiot
nice projection
>>8242753
>quoting something not present as projection
Paging Dr Freud.
I'd give him the article because right now he seems the reasonable one, since he might be able to tell the difference between words that say "idiot" and words that do not say "idiot".
>>8242753
Pardon me being bored by his "Shakespeare was black"-tier thesis.
I'll repeat myself. All I'm looking for is concrete proof Nabokov is a pedophile, and just because there's a published thesis saying he is doesn't mean that he is. If there is something in there then surely you're able to bring it to light in this thread.
Can we have an intelligent conversation? Or would you rather go in circles?
>>8242764
>Can we have an intelligent conversation?
I don't know what do you want to talk about.
>>8242704
There's also Laughter in the Dark. Not as pedo-ish/about the girl's age (she is young, though, about 16). Nabokov was a (lower-case r) romantic. He just chose to write about perverted love/attraction. Mary, The Enchanter, King, Queen, Knave, Glory, Transparent Things, Lolita, Ada, Lolita. Even Pale Fire is about perverted love (Kimbote's for Shade). That's what Nabokov does -- writes about love and insanity. Of course there's all the tricks he has. But at the core of all his work is love.
>>8242699
Edgy for the sake of edginess.
tfw Cormac McCarthy got away with being a blatant sociopath and war criminal and serial killer who scalped several hundred Mexicans in the 1850s and glorified war above all else
>>8242768
>I don't know what you want to talk about
I'll recap what we were talking about.
>OP/You, thesis: Nabokov is a pedophile
>me, antithesis: Nabokov is not a pedophile, you have no proof
>retort: article to an undergrad's essay
>me: this article is inaccesible without me spending money, surely you are a reasonable man and your stance is based on evidence. Present your evidence.
>You: ajduf8sjs ur an idiot holy shit I don't have an argument blah blah what are we even talking about?
>>8242796
That's a short and rather uneventful conversation. I don't' know how much there would be to say about it.
>>8242699
>his prose was so brilliant it was convincing
>he must be a paedo
Wonderful!
>>8242806
lrn2reed
>>8242803
You could say "I was wrong to assert that Vladimir Nabokov was a pedophile".
>>8242818
I right reckon I could.
Tolkien threw a gold ring into a volcano.
>>8242818
That is true. Here's some other things I could say:
"Karl Marx was a crocodile, but Engels wasn't."
"April is the cruellest bitch (in my class)."
"Kant's pronouncement that there has been no innovations in logic was wrong, even at his time."
"New Public Management really put those filthy proles in their place."
"Some more crisp bread please!"
>>8242812
Post this evidence then. No one here's about to pay for access to this thing so if you want to use it to make your case show us what it says.
>>8242849
>gets btfo
>changes rethoric without acknowledging it
>>8242688
All she had to do was listen
>>8242849
Dude, just admit it. You want to suck me off.
>>8242849
>>8242855
m8, I'd love to see him get BTFO but you haven't posted any evidence you have. He's not changing tack, he's asking you for the article which you claim has evidence. You're acting like one of those trannies who mention they're a grill and then don't want to show off their shitty boobjob.
>>8242934
>>8242835
>>8242855
This faggot isn't me, please ignore him, and you stfu.
As for all you faggots, let me put this straight. I POSTED a fucking ESSAY that you can read for a few fucking dollars if you really want to, conclusively proving that Nabokov is a fucking pedophile. What do you have? Tiny penises? LOL, get a fucking life, losers.
Pic related, it's me after I fucked your bitch. :^)
>inb4 I'm trolling
I'm just not a passive faggot like you assholes :^)
>>8242942
>shilling your own article
Yeah, you have no proof, enjoy your debts.
>>8242935
>>his prose was so brilliant it was convincing
>>he must be a paedo
>I show that this wasn't what the article said at all
>not btfo
>don't want to show off their shitty boobjob
I'm acting like a sensible person?
>>8242945
That's not me. You can tell by the writing style.
>>8242947
He asked you to show the other evidence the article relies on, the evidence it specifies is not the first part of your greentext.
Is your brain broken or some shit that it thinks follow up questions are all the original question? I even want you to win, but you need to do more than being a retard and providing no evidence for me to think you're even capable of competing.
>>8242957
>competing
It's not a competition. Calm down.
It's not like Lolita is his only pedo book. There's some super hot child sex in Ada
>>8242949
I'm fucking done with this thread. Let me make it clear that a bunch of assholes are pretending to be me, I'm not posting anymore.
These are my posts
>>8242613
>>8242699
>>8242670
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>>8242753
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>>8242803
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>>8242942
Anyway, I'm done. See you later, losers.
>>8242949
>implying I'm paying to find out
>implying your clickbait is better than the clickbait which brings me actual pedo shit
Okay, I assume you don't have shit by way of evidence and probably haven't even read the article yourself since you couldn't screenshot the relevant evidence. Nabokov goes back to "definitely not a pedo because someone would have produced evidence by now", and everything was as before. Good luck with the rest of them buying your crap.
>>8242962
He also called Lewis Carroll the original Humbert Humbert, and he didn't mean it disparagingly.
>>8242967
It's not my paper. It doesn't even look like you can buy it.
>>8242977
well, since we can't read that, ever read the boy who cried wolf?
>>8242982
I have not.
>>8242984
Pity
>>8242985
Why?
>>8242989
Cuz the main character's a little bitch like you, pussy. Fight me IRL
>>8243004
I don't read for identification anyway, pleb.
>>8243012
o-ok sorry.
What do you mean with "got away with"?
There is no reason to not let somebody "get away with" being a pedophile, as long as that person isn't actually a child molester.
>>8242666
Yeah mate, that short story is available.
Has one of the best closing lines i've ever read btw.
His son translated it to English and provided a foreword.
>>8242666
Satan be gone
