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Which author deliberately built deceptive charm into a 1955 novel's narrator, a trick many early critics missed by taking his account at face value?
Answer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov intentionally gave Humbert Humbert in 'Lolita' a seductive, articulate narrative voice to unsettle readers, yet many contemporary reviewers were charmed rather than suspicious of him.
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Nabokov intended readers to distrust Humbert Humbert in 'Lolita,' but many early reviewers believed his charm and took his narrative at face value, missing the unreliability entirely.
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- Agatha Christie
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Anthony Burgess
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- nabokov
- literary-technique
- 1950s
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