Later in the essay Nabokov writes, “Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader”What does he mean? Why can’t one “read a book”? How does he explain this impossibility?Discuss

Read the attached file and answer the following two questions:

1) Read closely the paragraph that begins “Time and space, the colors of the seasons, the movements of muscles and minds, …”

(2). There is an intertext here (that is, a text to which Nabokov alludes). What is it? By making reference to this intertext, Nabokov likens the “real writer” to two different characters from this other story. Which two?

2)Later in the essay Nabokov writes, “Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader”

(3). What does he mean? Why can’t one “read a book”? How does he explain this impossibility?

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