Lolita and the aesthetics of forbidden love

Chung Chin-Yi

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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