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Philip Klop (Quoting Chesterton on Tolstoy): “an artist teaches far more by his mere background and properties, his landscapes, his costume, his idiom and technique—all the part of the work, in short, of which he is probably entirely unconscious, than by the elaborate and pompous moral dicta he fondly imagines to be his opinions.”[...] As for purported feelings of "guilt", I propose we leave the Viennese delegation where they belong...
JM: An interesting quote from Chesterton, mentioning the unconscious determinants that shape an author's landscapes, idiom and technique, while they also instruct readers in ways far superior to any conscious "pompous moral dicta." Why not consider that the "Viennese delegation" may uphold theories that are closer to this vision, than Nabokov's insistent depreciation of them? Or to indiscriminately attack an entire "school of freudians," merely to argue against notions inspired by popular psychology?
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JM: An interesting quote from Chesterton, mentioning the unconscious determinants that shape an author's landscapes, idiom and technique, while they also instruct readers in ways far superior to any conscious "pompous moral dicta." Why not consider that the "Viennese delegation" may uphold theories that are closer to this vision, than Nabokov's insistent depreciation of them? Or to indiscriminately attack an entire "school of freudians," merely to argue against notions inspired by popular psychology?
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