"Perhaps the most direct assault on the question of tabooed eroticism was Nabokov's 1955 Classic, "Lolita," the story of an unbalanced man's pursuit of youthful beauty."
"My own first work was written without any reference to "Lolita," though the two have been compared. I wished to study the psychology by which unthinkable relationships occur.""
"Later I published my second, "Zorn," taking another odd theme as my background: a future society (2035) where bisexuality is considered normal, and politically incorrect speech the sleaziest of sins."
"'Lolita' spawned so much comment that many editions - like this one - contain copious scholarly comments on the layers of meaning, and hidden or suggested meanings and word-plays."
"This 1997 work expanded on the the theme of Lolita, revolving around the murder of Alice, a 12-year old girl. Gruesome and repelling, it explores the far pole of horror "Lolita" merely hints at."
"In another direction, Wilson's 1998 near-comedy shuffles us through a house of cards, where each flawed character revolve around Gold, and his yearning for 10-year old Bobs. Emphasis on the ludicrous."
"While Kagan's somewhat more lightweight work is more concerned with the relationship of the growing child to an uncertain andd potentially hostile environment."
"....and I add "Xangans" as been of interest in that it expresses the thought of non-mainstream writers, most of whom are young and so not far from childhood."
