To the List,
To amazon is to google bibliographically and in checking out Gavriel Shapiro's new book on Amazon I discovered that the question of Nabokov as a moral writer and specifically the subject of cruelty and the nabokovian reader has been discussed in
Style Is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov ~ Leland De La Durantaye.
Amazin', ain't it?
Carolyn Kunin
p.s. I checked the archives, and although references to this book were made when the book came out in '08, in praise of as far as I could see, no mention of the problem of cruelty was discussed (so there).