Because of the nature of her stories, the revelation that Munro remained with the man who sexually abused her daughter doesn’t just defile the artist, but the art itself.
If you lived wholly online and never talked to real people, you’d imagine there are only two camps: Those who can forgive any artist’s sins and take the art on its own terms as if it were shot from some cannon on Mt. Parnassus, and those who can never again consume the work of an artist who has done something they don’t approve of. The reality, of course, is much more muddled, and fraught, and heartrending.
Or to relinquish some of it. Or to look at it quite differently. And so the question, now, is whether Munro’s stories can ever again stand independent of what we now know about their author. Try as we might, it’s difficult to imagine any piece of art existing completely outside the context of time, circumstance, culture and creator.
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