(urth) Wolfe: Misogynist? and accessibility

Stanislaus sbocian at poczta.fm
Thu Oct 19 10:35:57 PDT 2006


Hello Jeff,

Thursday, October 19, 2006, 7:02:46 AM, you wrote:

> Jack Redelfs wrote:
>> I just don't see how we can neatly say that a
>> chivalrous author will refuse to put his female
>> characters in harms way. That's like saying only
>> an anti-semite would write novels about Auschwitz,
>> isn't it?

> If an author complusively wrote novels about Jews being tortured and 
> killed, I'd at least suspect him of anti-semitism.

There is a technical term for this kind of criticism = "the poetic of a
police informer."

I don't think the aim of reading books is to find some crime to accuse
author of.




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