Love Beyond Obsession and its moral consequences in Vladimr

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…is the difference between reality and art. Where we share the predicament of Nabokov and Humbert is the moment when we can be miserable about the moral consequences of our desires - but we follow them anyway. So Lolita tests our morality through a pariah. Humbert is a man who can not relinquish his most basic desires in order to join the moral world. Yet those desires seem fit to earn him our heartless condemnation.