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Perhaps, and even for certain, you came across monstrous textbooks written not by educators, but by demagogues - people who rant about the book, instead of revealing its soul. They probably already told you that the main goal of the great writer and, of course, the main key to his genius is simplicity. Traitors, not teachers. While reading the exam papers of bewildered students of both sexes about a particular author, I often came across such phrases - perhaps sank into his memory at a very tender age: “His style is charming and simple,” or: “He has a simple and elegant syllable ", Or" His style is simple and completely charming. " Remember: “simplicity” is nonsense, nonsense. Every great artist is complex. Simple "Setday Evening Post." Simple journalistic stamp. Simple "Upton Lewis." Digestion and speaking are simple, especially profanity. But Tolstoy and Melville are far from simple.
(Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian literature)
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