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"We need to discuss to what extent these works justify paedophilia," Chaplin told the Moscow Echo radio station in an interview. "The fact is that even the West used to have a very negative attitude towards them but then it changed."
"The time has come for a moral revolution, a counter-revolution, if you like," Chaplin said.
Both books are known for their frank treatment of sex involving young people.
"Lolita" examines the obsession of middle-aged businessman Humbert Humbert with a 12-year-old girl while "One Hundred Years of Solitude" wraps incest and young sex into its magical-realist world.
"Let's go and check then all literature from Homer to the great Russian classics for signs of violence, paedophilia and other unacceptable things," Nikolai Svanidze, a writer who is a member of Russia's public oversight body the public chamber, said sarcastically, according to the Interfax news agency.
Boris Akunin, the historical detective novelist who has won considerable fame abroad, told Moscow Echo that the church should undertake "not to interfere in secular and literary matters."
Meanwhile, President Dmitry Medvedev's international cultural envoy Mikhail Shvidkoi told Interfax that if any practical moves towards a review followed Chaplin's remarks "it would be damaging at the highest level for Russia."
The Russian Orthodox Church has enjoyed a boom in support since the collapse of the Soviet Union but its critics say it wields its considerable power too actively to influence people's private lives.
In a separate interview with Interfax, Chaplin described the two classic works as full of "depraved passion which makes people unhappy."
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"The time has come for a moral revolution, a counter-revolution, if you like," Chaplin said.
Both books are known for their frank treatment of sex involving young people.
"Lolita" examines the obsession of middle-aged businessman Humbert Humbert with a 12-year-old girl while "One Hundred Years of Solitude" wraps incest and young sex into its magical-realist world.
"Let's go and check then all literature from Homer to the great Russian classics for signs of violence, paedophilia and other unacceptable things," Nikolai Svanidze, a writer who is a member of Russia's public oversight body the public chamber, said sarcastically, according to the Interfax news agency.
Boris Akunin, the historical detective novelist who has won considerable fame abroad, told Moscow Echo that the church should undertake "not to interfere in secular and literary matters."
Meanwhile, President Dmitry Medvedev's international cultural envoy Mikhail Shvidkoi told Interfax that if any practical moves towards a review followed Chaplin's remarks "it would be damaging at the highest level for Russia."
The Russian Orthodox Church has enjoyed a boom in support since the collapse of the Soviet Union but its critics say it wields its considerable power too actively to influence people's private lives.
In a separate interview with Interfax, Chaplin described the two classic works as full of "depraved passion which makes people unhappy."
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