> In Lolita the pedophile is explicitly a creep. He's the bad guy, it's an exploration of a sick mind. Nabokov explored infatuations with "nymphets" in multipl

> In Lolita the pedophile is explicitly a creep. He's the bad guy, it's an exploration of a sick mind. Nabokov explored infatuations with "nymphets" in multiple works, Lolita was just the most famous. This has led many (even big fans of the writer) to assume that Nabokov did feel a certain attraction that he apparently never acted on, though this observation does not imply that he or the works deserve condemnation or scorn.