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The Pleasure of the Text
17Oct08
Quotidienne/Daily
p. 53
Why do some people, including myself, enjoy in certain novels, biographies, and historical works the representation of the “daily life’ of an epoch, of a character? Why this curiosity about petty details: schedules, habits, meals, lodging, clothing, etc.? Is it the hallucinatory relish of “reality” (the very materiality of “that once existed”)? And is [...]
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