Lolita | Social Concerns
In general, Nabokov's fiction is not chiefly concerned with social commentary. While his settings and characters are carefully and vividly constructed, and often carry a certain amount of satirical weight, Nabokov is always concerned not so much with the accurate reproduction of social reality as with the creation of an artistic reality in his works. As one of the characters remarks in his novel Pale Tire (1962), "'reality' is neither the subject nor the object of true art, which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average 'reality' perceived by the...
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