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Do you think Nabokov's novel Lolita could have got published today?

If you need a reminder:

“A middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather.”

Despite its controversial subject matter, “Many authors consider it the greatest work of the 20th century.”

Both quotes above are from the Wikipedia article on Lolita, the novel.

What do you think might have happened if that novel were submitted for publication in 2018 instead of 1955?

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