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Have you read it? I think that the perspective of books distilling themselves in our assumptions of them and because of us forgetting their contents is very interesting.
Take Ulysses. I guess that less than 10% of this board posters have read it. Yet a lot more people talk about it, basing their opinions on previous discussions and wikipedia summaries. If such poster will actually go and read the book, he will not encounter the book itself, but will have his reception distorted by whole of discussion about the book he witnessed. There cannot be a pure, ideal text reception. So you can stop worrying about "not getting the book", not comprehending enough etc. That's what's the book about. I recommend you reading it. It's a frivolous way of doing theory of literature, a light-hearted, not pretentious, not clustered with overly complicated terms theory of literature.
So it's basically a book about 4chan reading Joyce.
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>>8960867
isn't a rip off of some french author from long time ago?
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>>8960867
I think you are right that less than 10% of people read it, but I also think that those who didn't read it ignore posts about it.
At least I do. Meanwhile I wouldn't find it hard to believe that 50% here read the book. Reading books isn't hard and if people even browse a board about /lit/erature, surely they'd quickly catch up with lit's most recommended books.
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>>8960895
well, not-reading is a thing among French people (although it's not actually not reading the books), so some french authors mention it. Valery could be one example.
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>>8960909
What I meant was I think that someone had written similar book before Bayard
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>>8960867
>pretending to have read a book about pretend to have read books
How ironic.
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>>8960949
I haven't heard about that, then.
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>>8961085
Metapseuds
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>>8960867
This seemed kind of on topic so here goes.
I was wondering if anyone had a book suggestion for a guy who needs to impress some people for a job? What is a book written say the last 10 years that can lead into a conversation? Maybe something plebby but not TOO plebby? The La La Land of books if you will.
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