The reader 's own desires and own struggles for identity are deeply implicated . We cannot possess a work of art we can only meet it in an 'intimate and expensive encounter . It is intimate because it is personal and profound - and expensive , because of the cost to selfhood of exposure to selves so much greater than one 's own . And yet to read in the fullest sense is to partake of the literary gnosis : The self in its quest to...











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