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From: "Alexander Drescher" <bunsan@direcway.com>
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> Those forms of modern and post-modern criticism which divorce writers
> from their works encounter a particular difficulty with the monumental
> authors who resist editors and detest critics. These authors [Faulkner
> and Joyce among many others] insist that they are "sole proprietors" of
> their own legacies. The editor, critic or censor who is prepared to
> clarify their texts has sadly missed the point before starting the
> analysis. Conversely, their curious readers are properly invited to
> consider who speaks to them, as in any conversation; and how excesses,
> diversions, pre-occupations, side-trips, and other quirks are essential
> to the discourse.
> "Ulysses" would have been a better book had Joyce worked with an
> experienced editor; but it would not have been the monument "Ulysses"
> and Joyce could not have written it. While Nora was certain that Jim
> was a genius, she was also wise enough to pretend illiteracy. In this
> context, Nabokov probably had the best of possible worlds.
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> Sandy Drescher
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From: "Alexander Drescher" <bunsan@direcway.com>
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> Those forms of modern and post-modern criticism which divorce writers
> from their works encounter a particular difficulty with the monumental
> authors who resist editors and detest critics. These authors [Faulkner
> and Joyce among many others] insist that they are "sole proprietors" of
> their own legacies. The editor, critic or censor who is prepared to
> clarify their texts has sadly missed the point before starting the
> analysis. Conversely, their curious readers are properly invited to
> consider who speaks to them, as in any conversation; and how excesses,
> diversions, pre-occupations, side-trips, and other quirks are essential
> to the discourse.
> "Ulysses" would have been a better book had Joyce worked with an
> experienced editor; but it would not have been the monument "Ulysses"
> and Joyce could not have written it. While Nora was certain that Jim
> was a genius, she was also wise enough to pretend illiteracy. In this
> context, Nabokov probably had the best of possible worlds.
>
> Sandy Drescher
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