Thread: Literary Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Old 03-09-2013, 11:01 PM   #64
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Thanks for the great insights, issy. I hadn't picked up on the anti-Semitism but of course it would have been there. (I think for example of Groucho Marx being refused membership of a swimming club and saying that as his daughter was only half-Jewish, could she join and just go into the water up to her waist. It's funny, but he was using humour to highlight prejudice.)
me too, completely lost that point!
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