<div>Do people feel similarly betrayed by Doestoevsky?</div>
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<div>Again, I find it bizarre. I can't imagine thinking to myself "How dare Author X have different views than me!" I can imagine thinking "Well, I don't choose to spend time on this," but not a sense of betrayal per se.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:58 PM, David Stockhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">The comparison is a personally interesting one. Perhaps the difference is largely one of timing. I too felt somewhat betrayed by Lewis; I encountered Narnia not long after Middle-Earth, around second and third grade. <br>
Wolfe I discovered much later, and while I'm still waiting for the Great Atheist Novel, I don't feel betrayed at all. And Rand was clearly insane from the beginning.<br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 16:53:02 -0400
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<div class="im"><br><br>Personally I find the "betrayal" narrative bizarre whenever I hear it.<br>Secular writers and religious writers alike "color" their fiction to reflect<br>their political, moral and/or metaphyiscal beliefs, yet one very rarely<br>
encounters this "betrayal" storyline outside of discussion of certain<br>Christian genre writers. I guess in the right-wing fringe media we hear<br>about evil homosexual/pagan agendas hidden in works, but no one takes that<br>
stuff seriously.<br><br>I might ascribe this to the generally liberal or progressive attitudes of<br>most literary critics, academics, and, plausibly, much of the educated<br>reading class in the United States. But that doesn't really wash in my<br>
experience. I know countless people, many of liberal predispositions, who<br>have read and allegedly enjoyed The Fountainhead--and Rand is far preachier<br>than Lewis, Wolfe, or even Card. And Neil Gaiman has written about his<br>
feelings of betrayal as to Lewis's religiousity, but never expressed similar<br>feelings toward, for example, Kipling's imperialism.<br><br>I think the problem (if there is a unique problem here and not just soft<br>
bigotry against religion in general or a particular religion) must be the<br>perceived deception. The idea that Lewis might be planting ideas and images<br>surreptiously in one's head that would act to soften one's views towards<br>
traditional Christianity can be conceived of nefariously.<br><br></div>
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