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Originally Posted by Pierre Lawrence
In my mind one of the most extreme examples in fiction of a middle-aged male writer’s inability to create a relatable characterization of a teenage (preteen actually; she is twelve) girl is Nabokov’s Lolita - he doesn’t even attempt to give her any personality, but presents her solely as the object of the narrator’s pedophilia in wheezy prose that provides cover for his audience to defend its reading of a tale which, when stripped of its literary pretensions, is nothing more than a depiction of child rape.
Pierre Lawrence
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I've never read it, but my understanding was that it was written from the perspective of the man and he is considered to be an unreliable narrator (well, according to Wikipedia
) - in which case the (mis)characterisation of the girl is perhaps a deliberate distortion.