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Title: Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia by Dubravka Ugresic, Celia Hawkesworth, Damion Searls ISBN: 1-56478-298-0 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thanks For Writing
Comment: "The literary market does not tolerate the old-fashioned idea of a work of art as a unique, unrepeatable, deeply individual artistic act. In the literary industry, writers are obedient workers, just a link in the chain of production..." - with thoughts like these and many more, Dubravka Ugresic dares to open our eyes to the shortcomings of our literary scene. She dares us to reexamine our restricted notions about what is good or bad, what is saleable and what is not, and, ultimately, what we think is worthy of our complete attention. All the denizens of Amazon's 'reviewing elite' owe her a serious read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Insightful and Entertaining Essays
Comment: This collection of essays from the Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic deals with the state of literature and the arts, the media, the condition of exile and other subjects. While a few of the essays are merely glib, most offer many interesting insights, such as the fact that it is the market, rather than communism, which has most successfully enforced the ideals of "socialist realism" in the arts; that it is the sheer volume of new books, rather than their absence, which has resulted in the death of literature. An entertaining and interesting collection - recommended.
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Title: The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays (Post-Communist Cultural Studies) by Dubravka Ugresic ISBN: 027101847X Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic, Celia Hawkesworth ISBN: 0811214931 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance by Gabriel Zaid, Natasha Wimmer ISBN: 158988003X Publisher: Paul Dry Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays by Joseph Epstein ISBN: 0393308545 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Splendor of Letters : The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World by Nicholas A. Basbanes ISBN: 0060082879 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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