Thank you for not reading : essays on literary trivia
Record details
- ISBN: 9781948830454
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Physical Description:
249 pages ; 22 cm
print - Publisher: Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2022.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Dutch as Verboden te lezen! (Breda, 2001)"--title page verso. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Opening -- Los torcedores -- 2. Good morning -- Literary dreams -- Book proposal -- Agents and scouts -- Low-income writer -- Long live socialist realism! -- You know a craftsman by his tools -- Bazaar -- 3. The market -- Literature and democracy -- Engineers of human souls -- The writer as literary reference -- The aura of glamour -- Shares in human perversion -- Eco among the nudists -- Come back, cynics, all is forgiven! -- The role of Kirk Douglas in my life -- Alchemy -- Women, smoking, and literature -- Optimism strengthens the organism -- 4. Country cousin -- A little red dot -- How I could have been Ivana Trump and where I went wrong -- GW, the gloomy writer -- The magnificent buli -- A short contribution to the history of a national literature: the top ten reasons to be a Croatian writer -- 5. Life without a tail -- The writer in exile -- War is war, but intellectuals are only human -- Having fun -- 6. Well, goodbye -- House spirits -- Questions to an answer -- The writer and his future -- 7. Closing -- The seventh screw. |
Language Note: | In English, translated from the Croatian. |
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