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Character via nabolog by fulmerford on 2/4/10
I am quoting La Force about to quote Woods paraphrasing Nabokov: As
James Wood writes in his book How Fiction Works:Nabokov used to say
that he pushed his characters around like serfs or chess pieces—he had
no time for metaphorical ignorance and impotence whereby authors like
to say, “I don’t know what happened, by my character just got away from
same and did his own thing.”I have to suspect that even Nabokov would
have had a hard time pushing Freud around.(The rest at "Bossing Freud
Around: Freud as a Fictional Character.")
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Character via nabolog by fulmerford on 2/4/10
I am quoting La Force about to quote Woods paraphrasing Nabokov: As
James Wood writes in his book How Fiction Works:Nabokov used to say
that he pushed his characters around like serfs or chess pieces—he had
no time for metaphorical ignorance and impotence whereby authors like
to say, “I don’t know what happened, by my character just got away from
same and did his own thing.”I have to suspect that even Nabokov would
have had a hard time pushing Freud around.(The rest at "Bossing Freud
Around: Freud as a Fictional Character.")
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