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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 17:35:59 GMT
I'm not just talking about the content and the public's response to it but also, has PC cultured become so ingrained that writers would actively fear treading anywhere near a subject matter like this now? Certainly in the manner which Nabokov did.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 18:45:25 GMT
Nabokov would still have written it. I sure hope it would have been published. It's the most well-written book I've ever read when we are talking about pure form. Obviously, it loses a point here and there for function  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 19:04:56 GMT
I guess a better answer to your question is yes, I think you'd find a couple authors who would deal with that content still. I think you'd be less likely to find a publishing house who'd print it. But that shouldn't stop anyone these days. The printers would still print it if the money could be raised to foot the bill. They need the money. And it's not as much money as you might think.
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Post by mmexis on Jan 18, 2018 1:48:44 GMT
In this day and age, if a publisher wouldn't publish it he would self publish. It would also probably show up on various fiction sites (aO3, dreamwidth, etc) and might legitimately get published using that as a starting point. Isn't that what happened to those nasty 50 shades books? *haven't read any of them, thankfully.
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Post by dougb on Jan 18, 2018 14:24:51 GMT
There was a book published last year about a female teacher and her affairs with under age boys so I don't see why not. Can't remember the name of it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 17:46:23 GMT
Lolita is about a 12 year old girl (and includes fantasies about girls even younger). I suspect this might be the book your talking about. Firstly, it's about boys (and culturally, we tolerate boys having sex early more than girls) and secondly, they're teenagers and thirdly, it still caused a ruckus so one can only imagine what Lolita would produce. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Jan 30, 2018 18:28:47 GMT
I don't know. But I agree with you that it would be a huge shame if it were not published.
The plot wanders (ha!), but the prose is dazzling.
Political correctness has no place in the pursuit of creativity. Ooooh, I smell a new thread!
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Post by politicidal on Jan 31, 2018 1:43:41 GMT
Probably yeah but I don't think it'd be as acclaimed as it was.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2018 6:55:16 GMT
It would be published I think, cuz it'd be the best book ever made by today's standards.
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