Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0004667, Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:26:48 -0800

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Re: K. Rutsala (Illinois): More Memoirs from a Mousehole: LOLITA
& Notes from the Underground (fwd)
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I found the comparison very interesting, but:

>Both Humbert and the underground man are unreliable narrators, and their
>unreliability takes on precisely the same quality. They faithfully record
>the basic events of their respective stories; we have no reason to doubt
>the facts they describe.

What makes anyone certain that HH did not rape Lolita in The Enchanted Hunters?

Walter Miale