Reading Under Observation: délire Lolita
This article aims at, if not answering, at least raising the question: What is it exactly that we read when we read Lolita? If Vladimir Nabokov’s narrator overtly plays with his readers, he too, whether he knows it or not, is being toyed with. Through a series of manipulations and “camouflages” the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/1671 |
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| Summary: | This article aims at, if not answering, at least raising the question: What is it exactly that we read when we read Lolita? If Vladimir Nabokov’s narrator overtly plays with his readers, he too, whether he knows it or not, is being toyed with. Through a series of manipulations and “camouflages” the text turns the reading experience into a “camouflet,” questioning its very foundations, be they narrative, textual, temporal or structural. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |