In the 1950s the New York Times said this author “is writing about all lust” & his lecherous narrator “is all of us”
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In the 1950s The New York Times said this author “is writing about all lust” & his lecherous narrator “is all of us”
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The Final Jeopardy Answer is: Vladimir Nabokov
Final Jeopardy Explanation
On August 17, 1958, Elizabeth Janeway wrote in The New York Times that Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita is “writing about all lust”.
The book is notable for its contentious subject matter: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor going by the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with 12-year-old Dolores Haze, whom he kidnaps and sexually abuses after becoming her stepfather. He addresses her informally as “Lolita,” Dolores’ Spanish nick name.
In the article, Elizabeth Janeway claimed that Humbert, the lecherous narrator referred to in the clue has been afflicted by Nabokov “with a special and taboo variety for a couple of contradictory reasons“, and that he is “is all of us“.
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