Skinner is reshaping a narrative that turned a woman’s terrible decisions into near-literary sainthood, reminding us that character isn’t correlated with great art
with my heart in my throat, my opinion of one of Canada’s greatest writers transforming permanently in the process. Ms. Skinner had, courageously, come forward with thewhen she was 9 and for several years thereafter, and her mother, Alice Munro, upon learning the news 16 years later, chose her husband over her youngest daughter.
What made me livid was learning how open this secret was, a conspiracy of silence where all of the adults let Ms. Skinner down. Worse is that Mr. Fremlin was unrepentant about the abuse, because he did not ever see it as such. Lolita and Humbert, of course, refer to Dolores Haze and Humbert Humbert, the 12-year-old girl and her 37-year-old abuser who co-opts her life, her voice and her story in Vladimir Nabokov’s. The novel recasts Humbert’s deviant behaviour – which he dances on the edge of admitting, multiple times, without ever crossing the line into full comprehension – as a tale of seduction, a madcap American road trip, a poignant and doomed love affair.
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