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Thank you for not reading : essays on literary trivia / Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth with the assistance of Damion Searles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ugrešić, Dubravka, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Publishers and publishing.
- Authorship.
- Books and reading.
- authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : Open Letter, 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the Croatian.
- Summary:
- "Thank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshelves. Nowadays, the best strategy for young authors wanted to publish is to become famous in some other capacity first--as a sports star, an actress, or an Ivana Trump. One of the most interesting and paradoxical comparisons coming out of Ugresic's dissection of book culture is the similarity between the art of socialist realism (as prescribed by the Soviets) and the nature of the contemporary marketplace to produce and promote art that appeals to everyone. Thanks to cultural forces like listicles and celebrity book clubs, the publishing machine neglects literature in favor of accessible, entertaining books for the masses."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1. Opening
- Los torcedores
- 2. Good morning
- Literary dreams
- Book proposal
- Agents and scouts
- Low-income writer
- Long live socialist realism!
- You know a craftsman by his tools
- Bazaar
- 3. The market
- Literature and democracy
- Engineers of human souls
- The writer as literary reference
- The aura of glamour
- Shares in human perversion
- Eco among the nudists
- Come back, cynics, all is forgiven!
- The role of Kirk Douglas in my life
- Alchemy
- Women, smoking, and literature
- Optimism strengthens the organism
- 4. Country cousin
- A little red dot
- How I could have been Ivana Trump and where I went wrong
- GW, the gloomy writer
- The magnificent buli
- A short contribution to the history of a national literature: the top ten reasons to be a Croatian writer
- 5. Life without a tail
- The writer in exile
- War is war, but intellectuals are only human
- Having fun
- 6. Well, goodbye
- House spirits
- Questions to an answer
- The writer and his future
- 7. Closing
- The seventh screw.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781948830836 9electronic book)
- 1948830833
- OCLC:
- 1507698627
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