NPPF -- Why care about Kinbote?

[Malignd]

<<But I must say, it's a wonderful old thread ...  the
idea that a reader might care about a character in a
fiction. In fact, N talks about it in his lectures.
And so do most people who talk seriously. So what's
your problem? >>

Do you care to know my problems or would you like to
keep this to Pale Fire?

The point I'm after is that "caring," at least as I
understand it to mean by those who have posted, means
"having affection for," "liking," etc. which is, I
think, a pretty depthless way to assess a character.  
Kinbote is strange and compelling and Nabokov
psychologically complicated.  To ignore that, or find
it insufficient, because one doesn't "care" about him
...  Sounds like Oprah.


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