1 post tagged “aesthetics”
Question:
Could you read, and love, a literary work by someone whom you personally know to be a crappy human being?
I'm just wondering how the numbers will break down, so please answer, however briefly.
Two potentially biasing facts:
- I get an impression from most people I know that their answer, with very few caveats, is no;
- I'm not sure what my own answer is.
One more twist:
- he was an antisemite and owned slaves and beat his wife and made enemies everywhere, but these passages are immortal,
vs.
- he treats his MFA students like shit -- you should ask X about it sometime -- so every time people praise him I shudder.
So?
