I just read Nabokov's thoughts on his own book (311-317) and its exteremly interesting to me how he reflects on his own work. I began believing an author's purpose should be the true meaning of a book but have evolved that to somewhere different, however, I think Nabokov expresses something that made me look at the book differently. I still pick this up very action and event oriented, trying to decipher what each movement makes to the overall message he is trying to get across and I think Nabokov is saying thats not the point. He says "Lolita has no moral in tow".
This quote also made an impact when I read it, though I don't know entirely what to make of it just yet :
"For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I will call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. "
It just takes us back to the same question of what is literature and in Nabokov's mind there are very few things that live up to that standard . I guess I just want to hear what you guys though about this section I found it very intriguing but also hard to pin down.
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