![]() ![]() Long-time video-game players are guilty of innumerable virtual crimes, from minor indiscretions like jaywalking, in Atari’s Frogger, and smoking indoors, in Metal Gear Solid, to more serious outrages like driving under the influence, in Grand Theft Auto gunning down an airport filled with civilians, in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and full-scale genocide in Sid Meier’s Civilization series.Ī 2011 Supreme Court ruling recognized that video games, like other forms of art and entertainment, are protected by the First Amendment as a form of speech. But if video-game creators share such qualms it hasn’t stopped the production, in the course of the past forty years, of games that ask players to march in the boots of legions of despots and criminals, both petty and major. The question of whether-or to what extent-literature should allow readers into the minds of terrorists, murderers, and abusers both fictional and historical is one that continues to trouble authors. Steiner had the book recalled and pulped. ![]() Likewise, the American literary critic George Steiner had second thoughts on the publication of his 1981 novella, “The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.,” in which Adolf Hitler survives the Second World War and is given the opportunity to defend his crimes. Beset by doubt over the book’s subject matter, Nabokov hoped to burn the novel before it reached the public. It was Vladimir Nabokov’s wife, Véra who rescued the manuscript of “Lolita” from a back-yard incinerator at Cornell University. ![]()
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