| Author: | Zoran Zivkovic, Youchan Ito, Tamar Yellin | ISBN: | 9784908793295 |
| Publisher: | Cadmus Press | Publication: | September 1, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Cadmus Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Zoran Zivkovic, Youchan Ito, Tamar Yellin |
| ISBN: | 9784908793295 |
| Publisher: | Cadmus Press |
| Publication: | September 1, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Cadmus Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
