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Secret of Fame - The Literary Encounter in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
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Secret of Fame - The Literary Encounter in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
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Fame. Why do authors seek it? How does one acquire it? What are the
consequences of attaining it? Gabriel Zaid examines the methods and
motivations, from ancient times to the present day. He shines a
critical, yet humorous, light on today's literary world, whose
denizens find it more interesting to talk about writers than to
read them, and he takes a serious look at the desire for fame and
the disillusionment and objectification that can accompany it.
Along the way, Zaid pokes fun at literary and scholarly traditions,
including the unwritten rules of quoting other authors, the
ascendancy of the footnote, and the practice of publishing
foolishly complete works. The author can manage his literary name
like a brand, with a whole line of products: books published under
his name (but not necessarily entirely written by him), with all
their subsidiary rights; as well as a line of services . . .
There's no reason that toys, clothes, and many other things should
be the sole province of characters like Harry Potter and Mickey
Mouse. At the Gnter Grass Museum, established with the
participation of the writer, Gnter Grass t-shirts or Gnter Grass
tin drums could surely be sold. Gabriel Zaid's poetry, essays, and
cultural criticism have been widely published throughout the
Spanish-speaking world. In 2003, Paul Dry Books published Zaid's So
Many Books, which The New Republic called genuinely exhilarating.
Natasha Wimmer is an editor and a translator in New York City. She
recently translated The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishers).
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