NPPF - Preliminary - Pale Fire

[Malignd]

<<one of the sillier tacks taken in Nabokovian 
analysis is one where critics ask "Did N. intend for
Shade to be a "worse" poet than the author. >> 

I'm not so sure this is a silly tack.  Kinbote's and
Shades relative levels of writerly talent is an
interesting and unavoidable topic and one VN certainly
had control over.

<<My question is, could N. make Shade a better poet
than 
himself? ...>>>

Could N make a poem better than N could make a poem?

Well, if anyone could ...

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