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"How should we read Lolita? The beginning of an answer is that we should read it the way all great works deserve to be read: with attention and intelligence. But what sort of attention should we pay and what sort of intelligence should we apply to a work of art that recounts so much love, so much loss, so much thoughtlessnessand across which flashes something we might be tempted to call evil? To begin with, we should read with the attention and intelligence we call empathy. A point on which all readers can agree is that great literature offers us a lesson in empathy: it encourages us to feel with the strange and the familiar, the strong and the weak, the vulgar and the cultivated, the young and the old, the lover and the beloved. It urges us to see our own fates as connected to those of others, to link the starry sky we see above us with whatever moral laws we might sense within."from Style is Matter "Some of my characters are, no doubt, pretty beastly, but I really don't care, they are outside my inner self like the mournful monsters of a cathedral facadedemons placed there merely to show that they have been booted out."Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions With this quote Leland de l

Author

Leland De la Durantaye; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Ithaca: Cornell University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801476648

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities