Re-reading it, the realisation that I had missed a lot of that was quite hard to face.” Nabokov claimed that his novels needed to be read eight times, and repeated readings reveal many hidden layers.
I was seduced by the language and the descriptions of the place. I missed the severity of the trauma and abuse. “Re-reading it later I realised how much I missed.
“I first read the novel when I was 17, and was overcome with the poetry of the language,” says Jessica Kennedy. This physical experience is at odds with the comforting language of the book. Each episode will be different and the viewer will not only see, but smell, hear and, if they are too close to a flailing arm or stray leg, feel the performances. “We want the audience to have a visceral reaction,” says Megan Kennedy. Led around the Chocolate Factory in these performances of Dolores, the audience's gaze will be controlled and framed within intimate enclosed spaces. In the novel both are hebephiles preying on a young girl." Enclosed spaces "Nabokov often references the double in his novels through shadows or mirrors. "This pairing of the male characters is important, because we see them as one person," Megan Kennedy says. I first read the novel when I was 17, and was overcome with the poetry of the language. I missed the severity of the trauma and abuse Would she be angry or scared or traumatised? He wants to turn her into a woman but keep her as a child."ĭolores will create another fiction, based on how she would act if she had lived. Humbert wants to remould her and rewrite her history. "The story is written by a male writer and narrated by a male character, and they both deny her existence as a human, instead creating this fantasy being called 'Lolita'. "We rarely hear Dolores's voice," says Jessica Kennedy, who is artistic director of Junk Ensemble along with her twin sister Megan. A new performance installation by dance company Junk Ensemble, part of this year's Dublin Dance Festival, will give voice to the silenced Dolores and rescue her story from Nabokov's text. When Nabokov entitles his novel Lolita, this suppression is magnified. When Humbert Humbert, the child rapist narrator in Nabokov's novel, imposes his nickname on 12-year-old Dolores, he dismisses her individuality and silences her as a person. Dolores Hazes is not a famous literary character.
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