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I loved The Aspern Papers. It comes across so readily as a tale about critical overreach, about the distinction between authorial imperative and the boundaries of private lives. But it spins into something deeper. It becomes a cautionary tale about deceit and the rights of privacy. The narrator starts out a hero who needs to unearth these letters, but he manipulates one woman for this cause and almost ruins her.