The 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, is in our news cycle here in New Zealand.
It's a book that follows a professor's obsession with, and abduction of, a twelve-year-old girl.
And why is it in the news? Because of the Epstein files.
The latest dump of documents connected to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein turned out a surprising New Zealand name.
Auckland academic Brian Boyd, a world-leading Nabokov scholar, met with Epstein in 2012 to discuss financing his next book, unaware of Epstein’s behaviour.
Boyd joined Emile Donovan to talk about being named in the files and to reflect on the legacy of Lolita and the sharply differing readings the novel still provokes.
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