In his memoir Speak , Memory he describes his first romance as very intense and as having stayed with him all his life , very much in the way Humbert has the desire for young girls imprinted on him by his first affair . He ' s the ultimate unreliable narrator and it ' s usually impossible to know when you ' re being teased , but it would be likely that ephebophilia ? was something he could relate to . But who cares ? He ' s one of the genuine literary geniuses of the 20 th century . I disagree with the idea that his art has nothing to do with his life , but it isn ' t important to me where one starts and the other ends . Castigating him for creating corrupt characters is just philistinism . <| sep |> What would be the prices of shipping something from China to Uae with shop and ship and have you tried it ?