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what amounts to a reader's mimeograph of the Author's creative act

For he felt his own work to be multiplex but not truly multivalent--the buck stopped at Nabokov, the man who had placed the details there in the first place.

Barthes' portrait of the prepotent reader

criticism's tendentious politics

To Nabokov, an author was more than a bricolage artiste, more than a recombiner of older materials.