💋LOLITA by nabokov: deep dive, explained by a teenager📖

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welcome to another book review! this is more of an analysis for lolita by vladimir nabokov, one of the best modern classics! you could use this video if you're in a high school literature class and need to write an essay or book report so you're welcome lmao. we also talk about the sally horner case and if it is as linked to lolita as we are told. please enjoy this video at 1.5x speed!
⇒timestamps
00:00 - intro & disclaimers
01:37 - presentation (spoiler-free)
04:45 - lolita, part one
08:22 - on why lolita is not an erotica
09:12 - lolita, part one
09:49 - dolores haze vs. lolita
10:13 - lolita, part one
12:32 - on dolores's first time & humbert's reaction
14:03 - lolita, part one
14:43 - lolita part, two
14:59 - on humbert's views on lolita vs. dolores
16:23 - lolita, part two
20:06 - interpretation & observations
22:23 - the sally horner case
26:56 - interpretation & observations
28:17 - morality in lolita (and nabokov in general)
29:33 - is lolita, sally horner? & "why fictional killer merch isn't as bad as serial killer merch"
36:52 - outro & farewell
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@jennykelter9518 2 жыл бұрын

My brother came to me and told me this was the best book he’s ever read and I got goosebumps inside. I immidiately felt nauseated - I have never read the book but he gave me a brief explanation of what it was about. 1 month later I found out he had been molesting my daughter in secret :( this was over three years ago. I keep coming back reading reviews over the years wondering if I should read this book but I fail every time with sick feelings of nausea and cry because I can’t help but wonder if this book helped facilitate delusional romanticized-thoughts that encouraged his sickness . I got my daughter help after and in doing so I put off my grief to be there for her and now that she is better I feel waves of despair and grief over what he did to her and also how blindsided I was . I had to put my own trauma from it on hold to protect my little girl. My brother was my best friend and I trusted him more than anyone on my life. He was a writer himself , a introvert and only after finding out what he did - was I able to put the pieces together about why he never had a girlfriend and all the lies he told that seemed true at the time. This book is something I have wanted to read to understand but I am just not ready. Thanks for reading.

@sooneatyOrchids 2 жыл бұрын

So sorry for your story. I fully understand it. You need not worry yourself about this book, it is disturbing to anyone who has in real life experienced or seen abuse.

@binguslover21 2 жыл бұрын

my heart goes out to you and your daughter and for anyone that had to experience what you both had to go through. don't ever feel the pressure to read this book if its correlation to your traumatic experience becomes too difficult to handle. i wish for the best of both of you :)

@jennykelter9518 2 жыл бұрын

@@binguslover21 thank you so much

@Billpro25 2 жыл бұрын

Holy... I have no words... Best of wishes to you and your daughter. Hope you both recover.

@urmumlol1805 2 жыл бұрын

holy inn sorry to u and ur daughter.

@beannathrach2417 3 жыл бұрын

Herbert's description of their first time places the initiative on Dolores. But can we believe him? I find this question very important because it is completely irrelevant, and in the end Herbert acknowledges that. Boys and girls get curious and infatuated with adults. However they really don't understand what's happening, and this is part of how they learn. So the question of what Dolores actually did doesn't matter. What really matters is adults have a duty of care for all the children they encounter, and adults are supposed to understand what's happening. And an important part of adulthood is learning to sometimes set aside your own needs and wants in favor of others, and especially when the others are children.

@richardravenclaw318 3 жыл бұрын

it's humbert, not herbert. and the book is a work of art, not moral instruction so it's not really a place to look for advice on how to live.

@wadeheaton123 2 жыл бұрын

Humbert's description of the 1st time is in Latin. It's a satire . Dolly lost her virginity to Charlie Boy at camp . She left her sweater in the woods?

@LizardsLore Жыл бұрын

@Indigo Rodent 😬 there’s really an intentional afterward by Nabokov stating what Richard Ravenclaw says… that’s why it’s important to read the forwards and the afterwards

@francisfishing4913 3 жыл бұрын

this essay is very thoughtful, when i was a teenager i loved this book & i felt close to Dolores. i hope you get more views!

@LizardsLore Жыл бұрын

I always love seeing a teen’s perspective on classics. Y’all always blow me away with your thoughtfulness

@bad-girlbex3791 3 жыл бұрын

I put off reading this book until my 30's because I'd assumed it to be full of explicitly graphic and unbearable descriptions of abuse. However, when I DID read it, I absolutely fell in love with it and it's become my favourite book of all time. I still don't think I'd have been ready to read it at your age so kudos for having the maturity to not only understand the subtext, context and text itself, but enjoy it too. Every time I reread it I find something else, some little hidden 'Easter Egg' that relates to something Vlad was fascinated with, or a little game he's playing with us as a reader, showing us how clever he is. My copy is so covered in highlighter and marginalia, I can barely see the text anymore. I don't know if you're aware, but there was a book of essays released this last month called 'Lolita In The Afterlife' where a bunch of writers each write an essay about their relationship and experience with the book - good or bad. I think you'd really like it. Take care, Bex

@cloudsofttana 3 жыл бұрын

that is so awesome!!! i aspire for my copy to be unreadable too!🥺🥺

@lasofi5510 3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was explicit, but u r saying it isn't so... thanks! I'm just gonna wait 2 being older, i read some parts and i felt horrible cuz i felt it was "beautifull"🤮 I'MNOTGOING2FELLSADABOUTTHATCREEPNEVER!! xoxo

@richardravenclaw318 3 жыл бұрын

great comment. refreshing to read someone on youtube who can see the beauty of this book. it's a magnificent achievement that makes other writers jealous.

@cocacola37281 Жыл бұрын

nabokov had explicitly mentioned that the readers were the judges of the novel who have the power to decide whether what humbert did was wrong or right.

@bad-girlbex3791 Жыл бұрын

@@richardravenclaw318 I also stand by the fact that Lolita IS a love story. Not because I condone any of the actions of HH, but because this is his story, and he's telling a story from his perspective of it being a love story to him. Obviously he's the world's most infamously unreliable narrator, but there are parts when Nabokov is wanting us to see that for HH, regardless of what is "true" within the parameters of HH's desire to have the reader believe him, that HH's love was real and genuine which makes it a love story, as problematic and difficult to understand as rampant pederasty is.

@efleishermedia 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a long time literary junkie, and it gives me hope to see your love for the art. Keep up the reading and writing kid. You'll go far :) you handled this novel far more maturely than most adults could these days. Great job

@cloudsofttana 2 жыл бұрын

that was so sweet of you🥺thank u so much❤️

@mscrabson 3 жыл бұрын

It was super interesting for me as I’ve read the novel in Russian (translated by Nabokov himself) to see an english speaking person’s perspective on it. You deserve more views!

@herttamatildaaa5051 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! I really needed this for my English paper and you refreshed evertyhing back to my mind so clearly :)

@cloudsofttana 3 жыл бұрын

you’re welcome! i’m glad you found it useful❤️❤️

@cecilietro9692 3 жыл бұрын

Love this video essay! Super interesting and helpful, hope you continue making videos like these !!

@cloudsofttana 3 жыл бұрын

thank you so much!! i’ll definitely keep making these kinds of videos🥰

@vinipedrosa4616 Жыл бұрын

and so cool to see the dedication you have with this video I really loved your channel and hi from Brasil 🥰

@1995yuda 2 жыл бұрын

You're very intelligent and insightful. Thanks for the review.

@fernandopavon888 9 ай бұрын

Excellent review! Well done 👍

@bugsby4663 3 жыл бұрын

What I find disturbing as that Amazon market this story of a child kidnapped and raped as a love story and include a quote from Martin Amis who describes it as a comedy.

@23malaise 2 жыл бұрын

Amis is correct. Lolita, the novel, is a work of art. Art is beyond your petty standards of "acceptability."

@chrisfreeman9960 2 жыл бұрын

@@23malaise So true.

@tope7252 2 жыл бұрын

@@23malaise no one said it isn’t art but it’s definitely NOT a love story

@Tolstoy111 Жыл бұрын

It’s a comic novel. Tragicomic.

@nguyenkhiem7348 Жыл бұрын

thx for the summary i need this for my eng ee

@namkia205 2 жыл бұрын

You're so smart!

@Artemisadventrs 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@kavyathathsara9428 Жыл бұрын

Nice video. I enjoyed it. But Lolita is not Nabokov's first novel in English, it's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.

@srushtibodke3006 3 жыл бұрын

U look cute❤️

@cloudsofttana 3 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@23malaise 2 жыл бұрын

Lolita is the ne plus ultra of ironic Dionysian jouissance in American literature. Meet me in person and I will be happy to explain.

@koffiecake 7 ай бұрын

Can you elaborate

@francisdashwood1760 6 ай бұрын

Oddly enough, if someone has a problem with Lolita it's always a man. Women are OK with it. This doesn't surprise me at all, but most would think that it would be the opposite.

@maipmor 3 жыл бұрын

How old are you?

@chrisfreeman9960 2 жыл бұрын

I can't answer for whatever her age would be, but she certainly has clarity and an appreciation for a classic work of literature. She didn't allow anybody's belief systems of age to limit her.

@maipmor 2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisfreeman9960 i dont critic her age, im a teenager too

@chrisfreeman9960 2 жыл бұрын

@@maipmor Sorry Mai P More, I misunderstood you. I thought you were an adult, questioning her age, as in: "How could a teenager understand/ appreciate such complex themes, such as "'Lolita" ? You're just a kid". I thought you were an adult, being condescending to her, because of her age. Personally, I think teenagers are capable of understanding more complicated material. No, a teenager may not be an adult, but I don't necessarily see them as being a "child", as one would look at an eight year old. Then again, there is quite a difference between the ages of 13 through 19. I just prefer to see teenagers as BECOMING young adults, as they go through their teen years. But it surely is different for everybody. But anyway, I hope I was clear in my response to you. Thank you.

@maipmor 2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisfreeman9960 im 18 and have been informing myself about this "lolita" subject since 15 and have had a very complicated relationship with that then and so still thats why :(

@maipmor 2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisfreeman9960 also i do think it is very important for girls to understand at a young age what it really is about