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Libertinism has to be understood as it was from the beginning, liberty of thinking in philosophy and liberty of body in erotics at the same time. The opposition of the socially accepted behaviour and the individual cultivation of pleasure was a choice from the times of antiquity. Libertinism positioned itself for épatage in order to be different from the masses (stay outside) and for forming an elite...
In Nabokovʼs texts among polygenetic motifs hidden mythological allusions play an important role. The less poetic attribute of Demeter, the image of the pig, is an ambivalent and archetypical complex code of fertility and dirt, divine and devilish. The pig-motif in Greek mythology is closely attached also to Circe, whose story (Odyssey, Song 10) has a system of references in Nabokovʼs Lolita, in “The...
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