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and in fact maybe it's even harder.
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Nabokov set himself the task of making us like Humbert Humbert.
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Now how many of you liked Humbert in the end?
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He's getting less popular as the weeks go by.
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More of you seemed to like him when
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we were in the throes of reading his seductive voice.
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But Nabokov set himself the task of seducing us with Humbert's voice.
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Morrison, as part of this novel, sets herself the task of
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making us sympathize with a drunk
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who has no verbal capacities who rapes his own daughter.
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Now, does she succeed?
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Well, let's take a look.