▲ 32 r/Nabokov
Is It implied - or pausible - that young Humbert got sexually involved with his aunt?
Since I began reading Lolita, this specific paragraph got hooked in my mind especially because no one - atleast of the posts I saw - mentions t's content. It's a brief passage, but the way the narrator mentions Sybil wanted to make him a "better widower than my father." seems to imply, to me, a relationship of that kind.
Do you agree? If so, do you think such experience was one of the reasons of his great disdain for women and paedophilic tendences on his adult life?
Do you disagree? If so, do you think this is only one more of the multiple instances Humbert Humbert tries to paint himself as "desirable" and "attractive", even if in an incestuous scenario?
u/Moist_Recipe_4402 — 5 days ago