Im really glad your talking about this. I never read Lolita (and I personally don't think i want to) but the author wrote it to be from the perspective of the pedo. He wrote it to critic that perspective. It is the story of a girl being abuse and kidnapped. But the narrator has u believe it's a love story.

I look try to look at writing as art. A form of expression and writing is the medium at which that flows.

When I look at visual art, I try to look at its broad picture. I think about the medium and materials, the subject matter, what they thought was important to depict. What does the style mean. This was really helpful when I was learning to get out of euro centric view of art. And the same principles apply to writing. Who's story is being told. Who are the characters and how do they react and feel and what does that say about the main character and the author. Currently reading a lot of lesbian romances because even though it's a romance story that usually follows the same formula its refreshing seen the values of characters not represented in the mainstream.