Today's debate question

[Mark Kohut]

Proposition: That reading by identification with a character condemns the reading to be second-rate most of the time. The major reason: it reduces the sensibility of the writer, whose sensibility is supposed to be richer than ours ( most of the time) but which at least is Other than ours....

To ours. The vaunted empathy is crippled; the genius of observation and imagination is lost. The reading is ultimately solipsistic. 

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