minor readers

Zielinski zielinski at GMX.CH
Wed Jul 7 22:19:52 UTC 2004


> Somewhere Nabokov calls those of us who seek identification with
characters
> in literary works "minor readers," presumably by analogy with minor
> characters. Can someone direct me to the source of this quip?

Nabokov's idea of a "Minor" reader is discussed in this paper by a Polish
student:

http://www.saga.org.pl/0901/Pracenaukowe/METAMORPHOSES.pdf

Jan Zielinski

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