Aesthetic Bliss: How Vladimir Nabokov Uses Unreliable Narration in Lolita to Create Better Readers

In his most famous novel, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov created one of the intricate, memorable, and maddening narrators in literature. By firmly positioning Humbert as a mis-handler fact purveyor own skewed perspective, encourages perceptive reader to reject narrator actively seek out truth story for themselves. Subtle yet undeniable clues (such holes narrative arguments, clear exaggerations, logical fallacies) saturate this story, undermining credibility first-person perspective pointing toward its deception. Once we audience recognize that is guiding us away from grasp, are free wander through world author has interpret meaning ourselves, such, evolve into more attentive thoughtful readers fiction.