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From: <nitrogen14@australia.edu>
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> one has to bear in mind that when ayn rand says something
> or other is 'evil', she is applying her own 'objectivist'
> ethical standards, ie she's saying
> that Nabokov's view of life, of man etc are so opposed to her own
> as to be unjustifiable by literary skill
>
> I suspect she was wrong even on this level
>
> >
> >Did Nabokov ever have anything to say about Rand? Rand's own views on
> >Nabokov, -- which can be accessed here:
> >http://ellensplace.net/ar_pboy.html -- are certainly unique: "I have
>read
> only one book of his and a half -- the half was Lolita, which I >couldn't
> finish. He is a brilliant stylist, he writes beautifully, but >his
> subjects, his sense of life, his view of man, are so evil that no >amount
> of artistic skill can justify them."
> >
> >Nabokov? Evil? What's that old comment of Samuel Johnson's -- "no point
> >in wasting criticism on unresisting imbecility"?
> >
> >Rodney Welch
> >Columbia, SC
> >
> >
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From: <nitrogen14@australia.edu>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (27
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> one has to bear in mind that when ayn rand says something
> or other is 'evil', she is applying her own 'objectivist'
> ethical standards, ie she's saying
> that Nabokov's view of life, of man etc are so opposed to her own
> as to be unjustifiable by literary skill
>
> I suspect she was wrong even on this level
>
> >
> >Did Nabokov ever have anything to say about Rand? Rand's own views on
> >Nabokov, -- which can be accessed here:
> >http://ellensplace.net/ar_pboy.html -- are certainly unique: "I have
>read
> only one book of his and a half -- the half was Lolita, which I >couldn't
> finish. He is a brilliant stylist, he writes beautifully, but >his
> subjects, his sense of life, his view of man, are so evil that no >amount
> of artistic skill can justify them."
> >
> >Nabokov? Evil? What's that old comment of Samuel Johnson's -- "no point
> >in wasting criticism on unresisting imbecility"?
> >
> >Rodney Welch
> >Columbia, SC
> >
> >
>
>
>
>