The other day Will Self unburdened himself on the state of fiction with crushing hauteur. ‘What's now regarded as serious literature would, ten or 20 years ago, have been regarded as young adult fiction... in terms of literary history, it does seem a bit of a regression. If you consider that Nabokov's Lolita was on the New York Times bestseller list for nine months, it's a different order of literature...'
Would any publisher dare to print Lolita now? | The Spectator
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