Lolita and the aesthetics of forbidden love
Abstract
So while Lolita was dismissed as pornography in many quarters ensuing its publication it is also arguably artistic in bringing out the depths of passion, torment and guilt that accompanies Humbert’s fall as a sexual criminal and predator. Lolita then is an aesthetic of doomed and forbidden love rather than mere pornography.
Keywords
Lolita; Pedophilia; Crime; Forbidden love; Depravity
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