Kerry wrote: but if the author has one of his characters say
"I thought Lolita was hilariously funny from beginning to
end," do you believe the character, find the character is not
credible or decide that the author is immoral?
********** I would suspect that the author was developing a
character who would prove to be a sexual predator as the
story progressed.
Patrick King
--- "Kerry J. Schooley" <
gsp.schoo@murderoutthere.com> wrote:
> At 05:09 PM 25/02/2007, you wrote:
>
> >Well, Kerry, if you find yourself giggling
to
> relieve
> >the tension as you read Nabakov's poetic
reference
> to
> >a 14-year-old girl's vulva,
>
> You've applied the motivation here, not me. In
fact,
> I'm not sure I
> said anything to imply why I might find
Lolita
> full-tilt funny. You
> don't know me, and you cannot read my mind, yet
you
> feel comfortable
> attributing a specific motivation to my
statement.
>
> In reading fiction, the reader often has only
the
> slimmest of
> evidence to determine the motivations of
characters,
> narrators and
> even less for authors. This is particularly true
in
> Hardboil and
> Noir, where there's a strong stylistic tendency
to
> avoid internal
> dialogue and other character revealing
techniques
> except dialogue and
> behaviour. Much is left to the reader, but if
the
> author has one of
> his characters say "I thought Lolita was
hilariously
> funny from
> beginning to end," do you believe the
character,
> find the character
> is not credible or decide that the author
is
> immoral?
>
> > I'd say the humor is more
> >in the reader than it is in the
writing.
>
> That may be. I'm still inclined to think that
in
> art, meaning is a
> collaboration between the author and the reader,
and
> not always a
> successful one.
>
> > Just my
> >opinion.
>
> Well, that was my point to begin with.
>
> Best,
> Kerry
>
>
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