January 2010
3 posts
“‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.”
– Andre Gide
“But the books you like must also be read with shudders and gasps… Literature,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, in his rather critical lecture on Dostoevksy, arguing that while there is pleasure to be taken in dismantling mediocre literature it is just as necessary to interrogate and re-imagine one’s favorite works. (via mills)