Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0002641, Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:31:25 -0800

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Re: Pale Fire: who invented whom (fwd) -Reply (fwd)
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Subject: Re: Pale Fire: who invented whom (fwd) -Reply

EDITOR's IDLE THOUGHT. Being "reductive" is not necessarily a bad thing.
In fact, it's often supremely useful.
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From: Susan Sweeney <sweeney@HOLYCROSS.EDU>


I agree with Charles. It seems reductive to me to choose one side of the
novel over the other, and I think that Nabokov worked in many exquisite
contradictions in order to prevent one from doing so.

-- Susan Elizabeth Sweeney