A Letter

Dear Amanda,
Well I can see why one might question why there is a book that is not only written about a pedophile, but furthermore one that is written in such harmless yet great detail.I recently had to kind of defend Lolita very recently in regards to this question of perversion that one might derive from the text, and the only thing I could come up with was that might have been Vladamir's point. By choosing this subject matted on which to write, he aimed for more than just a best seller, he aimed for greatness that was not found in common places. The people who have read Lolita know this to be true because they experience far more than a group of words strung together in order to form sentences and stories that may all have different elements, but when they're stripped down to their core are just replica's of some original somewhere. This is were Nabokov takes a drastic leap away from the conventional type of writing and gives his reader more to take away than a moral lesson. I feel like to most people the rational behind picking up a book like Lolita and actually enjoying it is completely absent, and while that rationale is completely wrong, it is worth it to step away and become irrational. to be quite honest i don't think Nabokov ever wanted the rationale in the first place, for the irrational always seems to make everything more interesting.
Sincerely your classmate,
- Chelsea Diem