Thread 24659387

There's no way Nabokov could have written this book without being a pedophile himself.
How else could he write the main character so well?

"Humbert Humbert, c'est moi", he could have said.

>>24659387 (OP)

how do you know the main character's written well? pedophile.

>>24659387 (OP)
Nabokov was not a pedophile himself, but he knew pedophile mind well as he was himself molested in his adolescence by his uncle.

>>24659429
Is there any evidence that grants this claim more merit than baseless rumour?

>>24659432
J.D. Salinger was both molested as a child and later was a pedophile. Exactly like Holden Caulfield.

>>24659521
I was specifically referring to Nabokov being the victim of his uncle, is there any written source of this claim ?

>>24659387 (OP)
Its a pretty typical love story