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Subject: RE: [Fwd: Re: Amis. Nabokov, Bellow]
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:36:37 +1300
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'Vladimir Nabokov Forum'" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
In response to Ellen's comment:
> Frankly, I don't see why admiration for an author means that one
must adopt all his/her attitudes and beliefs.
Ellen Pifer
Especially as Nabokov would have been the last to want such passivity
and abdication of individual thought in any reader. He certainly never
read even favorites like Pushkin, Flaubert, Tolstoy or Joyce without a
sense of his right to disagree, to publicly criticize, or to appreciate
and imagine in his own way.
Brian Boyd