The Book is not quite a novel, although almost half of it takes the form of a narrative, neither is it an essay, although quite a lot of what is said in it adopts that style. It is actually closest to that rare type or "para-genre" of satirical prose embodied in the exemplary In Praise of Folly by the famous humanist from Rotterdam. Instead of the "Folly, " of human manias and absurdities, here, in a similar kind of double-talk, the books themselves "speak, " those monuments to our intelligence, ambitions and self-importance, and they primarily "speak" by making an analogy between man's fate and that of books-to man's detriment, of course.
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ISBN | 9784908793110 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Zoran ¿ivkovi¿ |
Jahr | 20181210 |
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