The Book

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary
Cover of the book The Book by Zoran Zivkovic, Youchan Ito, Tamar Yellin, Cadmus Press
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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.

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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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