Sacred and Profane Love Episode 19: Love and Lust in Lolita
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After a long winter\\u2019s nap\\u2013i.e., the end of the semester madness followed by holidays with my family\\u2013I am back to releasing new episodes of Sacred and Profane Love.\\xa0 I am starting the Spring semester with a discussion of Nabokov\\u2019s celebrated but controversial novel, Lolita.\\xa0 In episode 19, titled \\u201cLove and Lust in Lolita,\\u201d I speak with Becca Rothfeld, award winning essayist, literary critic, and PhD candidate in philosophy at Harvard University, about the tensions we readers are forced to navigate between the awesome beauty of Nabokov\\u2019s prose and the ugly perversion that is the central focus of our attention in the novel.\\xa0 As readers, it is natural to wonder how we can appreciate the beauty of the novel\\u2019s prose and the cleverness of its structure, given its dark subject matter.
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