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>"Let me refer to one more method of dealing with literature---and
>this is the simplest and perhaps the most important one. If you hate
>a book, you still may derive artistic delight from imagining other
>and better ways of looking at things, or, what is the same,
>expressing things, than the author you hate does.
Very good, but how can one "hate" a novel or novelist, unless for a
kind of falseness or other moral failing? (for example, Bellow) And
why would Nabokov sling around such judgments uncritically?
Vladimir Vladimirovich, really! What do you suppose you were doing?
Best regards to all. PS Your novels only get better with time.