“Another great Russian writer. Even though this book is American..it has that Russian sensibility.BTW Lolita reminds me of 'A short History of Tractors in Ukrainian' of the east-european papa who marries a women half his age... now I can't help but think..what is it about these 'dirty old men' from east-europe. In Atwoods Cat's Eye, the narrators lover who is 15 years her senior is from Hungary..are they all 'Humberts'? And how did they get to be that way? That's what I want to know.”
“there are so many "dirty old men" all over the world, if you want another literary example, there is Marquez's Love in Time of Cholera, so it's not just East-Europeans. And i hope you do realize that naming Nabokov's hero this way is a grues misconception, missing the whole point of the book and reducing it to a wikipedia-size plot? ”
