"This book was originally published in French as La haine de la litterature (c) 2015 by Les �Editions de Minuit, 7, rue Bernard-Palissy, 74006 Paris."--title page verso. Translated from the French. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Literature and anti-literature -- Words from elsewhere -- First trial: Authority -- Second trial: Truth -- Third trial: Morality -- Fourth trial: Society --- Conclusion: The hidden face of literature.
Summary:
For 2,500 years literature has been condemned in the name of authority, truth, morality and society. But in making explicit what a society expects from literature, anti-literary discourse paradoxically asserts the validity of what it wishes to deny. The threat to literature's continued existence, William Marx writes, is not hatred but indifference.-- Provided by publisher.
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