NPPF: Preliminary: The Epigraph

[jbor]

on 13/7/03 11:59 PM, Jasper Fidget wrote:

> Any framing of the novel is ultimately VN's, but it's a novel concerned with
> characters in the process of not only living the story, but actively writing
> it as well.  While the argument can be made, and I think it should be, that
> ultimately the clues in the text do point beyond Shade and Kinbote to VN
> himself, the novel at least ostensibly presents itself less as the artifact
> of a novelist than as the combined artifact of its characters.  Surely then
> these creative acts in the story, their resultant text, and the identity of
> their creators, are a matter worthy of concern, no?

Of course. But they're questions of plot rather than of authorship.

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