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The Book
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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-13: 9784908793073
- ISBN-10: 4908793077
- Publisher: Zoran Zivkovic
- Publish Date: August 2018
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.67 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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