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Burn This Book - Notes on Literature and Engagement (Paperback)
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Burn This Book - Notes on Literature and Engagement (Paperback)
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Loot Price R331
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As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When
we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet
Union. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight
on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Both
provocative and timely, "Burn this Book" includes a sterling list
of award-winning writers; it is sure to ignite spirited dialogue.
In "Witness: The Inward Testimony", Nadine Gordimer discusses the
role of the writer as observer, and as someone who sees what is
really taking place. She looks to Proust, Oe, Flaubert, Graham
Green to see how their philosophy squares with her own, ultimately
concluding Literature has been and remains a means of people
rediscovering themselves. In "Freedom to Write", Orham Pamuk
elegantly describes escorting Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter
around Turkey and how that experience changed his life. In "The
Value of the Word" Salman Rushdie shares a story from Bugakov's
novel "The Master and the Margarita", in which the Devil talks to a
frustrated writer called The Master. The writer is so upset with
his own work he decides to burn it: How could you do that? The
devil asks. Manuscripts do not burn. Indeed, manuscripts do not
burn, Rushdie argues, but writers do.
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