Ska det vara svårt eller lätt att läsa? I en essä i senaste numret av TLS resonerar man utifrån Nabokov. Bland annat detta:
"Like many of the Modernists, Nabokov was of two minds as to whether reading should be easy or difficult. "I work hard, I work long on a body of words", he wrote, "until it grants me complete possession and pleasure. If the reader has to work in his turn - so much the better. Art is difficult. Easy art is what you see at modern exhibitions of things and doodles."
Det, jeg vil have, når jeg læser, er netop "complete possession and pleasure" - det kommer ikke let.
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