Nabokov's "Good Readers and Good Writers" Thesis

I just finished reading "Good Readers and Good Writers" by Vladimir Nabokov, who was a Russian novelist. Vladimir was born on April 22, 1899 and died at the age of 78 on June 2, 1977. (Vladimir) During that time, he wrote his famous essay that I stated above. What I learned from his essay was that he wanted there to be a balance between writers and readers. Nabokov stated, "What should be established, I think, is an artistic harmonious balance between the reader's mind and the author's mind." What I got out of that was that the author has to put enough material so that the reader can use their imagination along with the author. This is what I believe to be the thesis to be. Even though it is implicitly stated, it shined through very strong and clear. Also the thesis is linked to the title of the essay. I think that Nabokov named his essay "Good Readers and Good Writers" because using the word "good" before readers and writers made it seem like there was a balance, which goes back to the thesis. At the beginning it did not really seem that the paragraphs went together but after reading the whole essay, everything was tied together, like the title and the thesis.

Nabokov, Vladimir. "Good Readers and Good Writers." Lecture

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