Nobokov's Lolita is a very widely read book..but when i was frittering through its pages i cudn really understand why??..Why did the book hav to be a reader's delight when i found each of its pages utterly repulsive...the way the entire character of Humbert Humbert has been brought about is ..abhorrent..thats whre i guess lies the writer's mettle!!
H H is a pedophile(in his forties) who claims to be in love with a 12 yr old Dolores Haze...the way he describes the child..imagines her..and writes about his sexual escapades with her is disturbing..to the extent that one feels like dashing the book straight into the bin....
He gets married to her mother only to do away with her later on and com in immediate contact with his so called nymphet!..he loves her exploits her..does evryhting to her....and still calls her his daughter...and the child has no where to go bcoz she has no other guardians...until she gets rid of the pervert...only to find a man closer to her age and live with him(she is 17 then)....
H H is a..sinner.. pedophile..a psychopath....maniac who commits crime...murders...and above all incest!!...his perception of evry little girl..as a sex object..a nymphet is hateful...n throughout the book he justifies himself by vocalizing his love for Lolita...n let me tell u none of his justifications are convincing...
Towards the end Lolita decides to live her life her own way..while HH realizes that throughout his life with Dolores he never cared about her feelings..he could never see the shadow of darkness in her eyes..he realises that he had robbed a 12 yr old of her childhood..and subjected her to irreparable damage..physically...psychologically...mentally..morally..evry possible way!
The subject matter taken up by the author is very sensitive. The book brings about an emotional turmoil in the reader...mayb the book is trying to sensitize us towards the existence of the domination of a bigger n more sinister social evil!
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Its a master piece!!
Different readers sure have their own interpretation of any piece of literary wrk...here is my understanding of the finest tales evr written by Richard Bach
Envious of the eagle and the other highflying birds JL tries to ape them..The question..if they can than why cant he always irks his mind...The other gulls of his clan declare him an outcaste..an outlaw only because he tries to make an effort to do somthing that he is not meant to do..Seagulls are low flying..even an effort from them to do somthing that they are not naturally mean t to do is considered outrageous.. The end ..the innocent JL is left all alone among his people. He decides to abandon them and move to an isolated place where he can practice away from the prying eyes of his peers.
The book is about his struggle ..about his bending the rules...about thinking, perceiving, dreaming and doing somthing that no one wanted..rather tolerated him to do. He dedicates his entire life..becomes old only to teach somany other young gulls the art of flying high!!
The book is pure inspiration...which made me speechless at the realization of how our lives have blended them selves so well with the society and its norms that we hav lost ourselves..forgotten our existence .....to become what we are and what the society thinks that we are supposed to be.
Different readers sure have their own interpretation of any piece of literary wrk...here is my understanding of the finest tales evr written by Richard Bach
Envious of the eagle and the other highflying birds JL tries to ape them..The question..if they can than why cant he always irks his mind...The other gulls of his clan declare him an outcaste..an outlaw only because he tries to make an effort to do somthing that he is not meant to do..Seagulls are low flying..even an effort from them to do somthing that they are not naturally mean t to do is considered outrageous.. The end ..the innocent JL is left all alone among his people. He decides to abandon them and move to an isolated place where he can practice away from the prying eyes of his peers.
The book is about his struggle ..about his bending the rules...about thinking, perceiving, dreaming and doing somthing that no one wanted..rather tolerated him to do. He dedicates his entire life..becomes old only to teach somany other young gulls the art of flying high!!
The book is pure inspiration...which made me speechless at the realization of how our lives have blended them selves so well with the society and its norms that we hav lost ourselves..forgotten our existence .....to become what we are and what the society thinks that we are supposed to be.
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