Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W4240633845> ?p ?o ?g. }
Showing items 1 to 44 of
44
with 100 items per page.
- W4240633845 endingPage "80" @default.
- W4240633845 startingPage "71" @default.
- W4240633845 abstract "It is notoriously difficult to make sense of Humbert's claim in the novel's final three paragraphs that he started, fifty-six days ago, to write Lolita, first in the psychopathic ward for observation, and then in this well-heated, albeit tombal, seclusion. 1 He asserts impressive productivity during his confinement. Motivated by his original intention to use these notes in toto at his trial (p. 308), we gather that he leaves his fictional editor, Dr. John Ray, Jr., well over three hundred pages of manuscript which Ray publishes intact after a few minor corrections (p. 3). But the question remains whether Humbert spends the entire last eight weeks of his imaginary life writing. He is in failing health and faces an imminent trial date, so every day must count. Yet a close examination of the pointedly detailed chronology of his last nine chapters throws his writing time awry by three days. Ray says on the novel's first page that the protagonist died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November 16, 1952 (p. 3). If we assume that Humbert's first and last use of the title minutes before his heart failure decisively marks its hurried completion, he should have begun his manuscript on 22 September. 2 But it is not easy to square this assumption with the book, which leaves him free on that day to collect and read Dolores' letter. Furthermore, he remains at liberty to pursue his insomniac three-day hunt through Coalmont, Ramsdale, and Parkinton to Pavor Manor (pp. 266-93), where he seems to take an hour to kill Clare Quilty on the morning of 25 September (pp. 293-308). Critics have attributed this important factual contradiction to two possible principals. We can convict an artfully unreliable narrator (Humbert Humbert) whose ego still throbs with the certainty that he manipulates time along with the sympathies of his readers as he works against the clock to tie up his narrative threads: thus, he neatly, but implausibly, settles the destinies of the three main characters with a reconciliatory visit to Dolores and revenge on Quilty. [End Page 71] Or we can convict an author (Vladimir Nabokov) who is defiantly unwilling to be enslaved to dates (like the early Dickens), or prone to errors with them. 3" @default.
- W4240633845 created "2022-05-12" @default.
- W4240633845 creator A5055688675 @default.
- W4240633845 date "2001-01-01" @default.
- W4240633845 modified "2023-10-18" @default.
- W4240633845 title "How Unreliable Is Humbert in Lolita ?" @default.
- W4240633845 doi "https://doi.org/10.1353/jml.2001.0019" @default.
- W4240633845 hasPublicationYear "2001" @default.
- W4240633845 type Work @default.
- W4240633845 citedByCount "1" @default.
- W4240633845 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
- W4240633845 hasAuthorship W4240633845A5055688675 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConcept C11171543 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConcept C135068731 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConcept C15744967 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConceptScore W4240633845C11171543 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConceptScore W4240633845C124952713 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConceptScore W4240633845C135068731 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConceptScore W4240633845C142362112 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConceptScore W4240633845C15744967 @default.
- W4240633845 hasConceptScore W4240633845C95457728 @default.
- W4240633845 hasIssue "1" @default.
- W4240633845 hasLocation W42406338451 @default.
- W4240633845 hasOpenAccess W4240633845 @default.
- W4240633845 hasPrimaryLocation W42406338451 @default.
- W4240633845 hasRelatedWork W2007213216 @default.
- W4240633845 hasRelatedWork W2748952813 @default.
- W4240633845 hasRelatedWork W2764004678 @default.
- W4240633845 hasRelatedWork W2899084033 @default.
- W4240633845 hasRelatedWork W3008493557 @default.
- W4240633845 hasRelatedWork W4248827709 @default.
- W4240633845 hasRelatedWork W4290653230 @default.
- W4240633845 hasRelatedWork W4324131350 @default.
- W4240633845 hasRelatedWork W4361263349 @default.
- W4240633845 hasRelatedWork W2755178043 @default.
- W4240633845 hasVolume "25" @default.
- W4240633845 isParatext "false" @default.
- W4240633845 isRetracted "false" @default.
- W4240633845 workType "article" @default.