I'm glad to see that someone actually agrees with me! I felt so terrible getting confused as to whether or not I should see Lolita as the agressor or not. Also, really good point about the book being about how much power the narrator has and how easy it is to fall into the trap of poor reading skills. I guess that a good author can trick even the most distinguished of all close readers. It's really amazing to me how much power authors really do have over their readers. Confusion over Lolita is only one example of how powerful good writing can really be. Although this book is speaking of a child rapist, the language Nabokov uses is absolutely mesmerizing to me and I find myself completely lost in the reading of this novel. I came into this with a closed-mind, vehemetley against everything it stood for. Your point of Nabokov actually speaking out against the very topic he is writing about makes a very good point that I didn't even think about.
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