[Sebastian Retana]

Vladimir Nabokov the writer of “Good Readers” seems to give philosophical ideas on literature; he explains many philosophical ways of learning beyond the readings of literature. For instance he says there are four useful tools that we must have to be a good reader. First you must have an infinite imagination, the reason why we must have an imagination is so is that “the reader must know when and where to curb his imagination and this he does by trying to get clear the specific world the author places at his disposal”, but try to go beyond the writing to get into a new world, into the world of literature. The next one is having a memory, a memory to know what’s going on and to remember the details of a book or reading to piece all the details together to understand the message of the book. The next one is having a dictionary; this is the only tool that nobody can physically possess within themselves, a reader must have a dictionary to look up words they may have never heard of or simply doesn’t understand them so that he could understand the words and how they fit in the reading. The last one is having an artistic sense, it will be very boring if readers read books without an artistic sense, it will be like going to an art museum without enjoying the magnificent masterpieces, and we must have a bravura artistic sense to feel the imaginative rhythm and colors of literature.