“Many critics have called Lolita a tragicomic, although ‘horror satire’ might equally be apt of a descriptor. The novel’s narrator, Humbert Humbert, remains a memorable literary villain drawn from the literary gene pool of Iago or Roger Chillingworth. And like the above villains, Humbert takes pride in manipulating individuals’ struck by tragedy (in this case Dolores Haze or, as Humbert christened her, Lolita). What’s striking about this novel is the villain acts as the narrator, and the...”

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