Lolita

This is the second in a series of essays on the constructed conditions facilitating sexual abuse present in Pasolini’s Salò and Nabokov’s Lolita. In my last piece, I explored the relationship that sexual violence in each of the two texts holds to the conditions of hegemony, arguing that each work…

Lolita was published in 1955 and was written by Russian novelist, Vladimir Nabokov. Despite being published years ago even before the first Star Wars movie was released, why does this novel remain a classic regardless of the fast-changing modern society? I first saw the 1997 film adaptation starring Jeremy Irons…

Today marked an extraordinary experience as I embarked on a journey to Miami, beginning with a 5 am flight and fueled by a quick coffee stop. Eager to attend a press conference on the fate of Tokitae, a captive whale whose story has captured the hearts of many, I couldn’t…

What I had madly possessed was not she, but my own creation, another, fanciful Lolita — perhaps, more real than Lolita; overlapping, encasing her; floating between me and her, and having no will, no consciousness — indeed, no life of her own. Lolita, pt. 1, ch. 14. Key to any…

[This is the first in a series of essays; a brief introduction to this overarching project can be found on my page. Please be aware that this essay contains discussion of sexual abuse, including rape, incest, and pedophilia, as well as reference to torture.] Patriarchal incest — that which takes…

A Critical Review Of Humbert’s Ability To Persuade ANYONE who’s ever read Vladmir Nobokov’s Lolita knows that it’s impossible not to favor its narrator, Humbert: rapist and murderer. Like most convicts, H.H is charming, sociable and convincing. …

The book Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is a dark and disturbing tale about the forbidden love affair between a man named “Humbert Humbert” and his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Dolores or as he so fondly calls her “Lolita.” Lolita is written in a way where the reader can’t help but slightly sympathize…

Lolita has become a big discussion point this year, as the nearly seventy year old novel — released just post-war in 1955 — has found a second life on TikTok. There have been plenty of thoughts on why it might be making a resurgence, and consideration as to whether people…

Notes from a filthy backroads motel. — Ingredients · 7/8 cup of dry milk · 2 cups of water · 1/8 tsp of salt · 2 4-oz packets of unflavored gelatin · 2 pounds of cheap, boxed cheese Directions 1. Kill Quilty, for he stole from you the ever lovely, rarely trustful, reliably dreamy nymphette, Lolita. 2…