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Originally Posted by queentess
I don't think it's about "turning evil into good", just a matter of understanding the evil by seeing it from a different viewpoint. I will always and forever see pedophilia as a terrible evil, but I can read Lolita and get an understanding of the evil. Doesn't make it any less wrong or evil.
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I think this is an important point. And, just thinking about it briefly, there are a lot of works like this, albeit less literary. Elmore Leonard has a lot of books focused on criminals, and does a good job of giving the criminal point of view (to the extent there is such a thing) without making them look "good" at all.
And of course there's "The Sopranos."
Oh, and Chapter 4 of "Paradise Lost," which I suppose is even more "literary" than Lolita...it's in verse, after all.