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FRIENDS AND ENEMIES.

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Humbert Humbert, the debonair lovesick scoundrel who narrates Nabokov's "Lolita," tries mightily to convince us of his essential sanity. And Barbara Covett, the predatory aging schoolteacher who narrates Zoe Heller's novel "What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal" (2003), wants us to believe that she's a generous and good friend. They're initially so plausible, these monsters of calculation! They try to fool us the same way they fool the world. Part of the fun of reading such books is slowly discovering the truth of events that the narrators describe with self-serving relish. But, if you're a filmmaker, how do you transfer ...

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