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Re: Strengths of ADA, weaknesses of LO... (fwd)
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From: michael fischer <voltemand@hotmail.com>
Seems to me that VN via Van, (that was fun to write!) is criticizing not
Proust, but readers and teachers of Proust employing too strenuous an effort
to force a (well, today perhaps "queer") reading of the relationships back
into the book by way of Proust's alleged (?) homosexuality.
VN is certainly on record elsewhere against this sort of
find-the-author-in-his-work variety of reading/teaching/criticism.
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Seems to me that VN via Van, (that was fun to write!) is criticizing not
Proust, but readers and teachers of Proust employing too strenuous an effort
to force a (well, today perhaps "queer") reading of the relationships back
into the book by way of Proust's alleged (?) homosexuality.
VN is certainly on record elsewhere against this sort of
find-the-author-in-his-work variety of reading/teaching/criticism.
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