Erica Jong, poet and novelist, in: The New York Times,June 5, 1988, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 3, Column 1; Book Review Desk, Summer Reading; Time Has Been Kind To The Nymphet: ‘Lolita’ 30 years later.
Lionel Trilling, ”one of the leading U.S. critics of the twentieth century who traced the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature,” (wikipedia), as quoted in: Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita. A Reader’s Guide To Essential Criticism; Edited by: Christine Clegg.
Erica Jong, poet and novelist, in: The New York Times,June 5, 1988, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 3, Column 1; Book Review Desk, Summer Reading; Time Has Been Kind To The Nymphet: ‘Lolita’ 30 years later.
… I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer… .
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