Saturday 1 December 2012

"The trick" is that you have tricked yourself now


Realism | Clarissa's Blog

Interesting how much the contemporary interest, in reading a work of literature, is on where the author sets out to trick us. I’m not saying this is an unfruitful angle on a work of art, far from that. It’s just that I think the logic has reached its limit, whereby people cannot read for understand or to gain information very much, anymore. They’re too busy trying to find “the trick”, the method of deception…

I’m sure I speak above all for myself, since I have bookshelves of those critters (books) which I can no longer read anymore.

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