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Legile pieţei, tentaţia succesului şi literatura
Market Law, the Temptation of Success and Literature

Author(s): Rodica Binder
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: Literary Quartet; Marcel Reich-Ranicki; Helmut Karasewk; Sigrid Löffler; Haruki Murakami; high-end culture; public success; market success; Iris Radisch; Die Zeit; Elke Heidenreich;

Summary/Abstract: Quoting Hans Olof Henkel – an enthusiastic supporter of globalization – who warns that the master of the new world is no longer the man but the market and who does not comply with its laws will be destroyed, Binder concludes her text on an optimistic note. Although the market has a strong influence on both the production of books (highlighting mercantilism, triviality and a so-called democratization of literature) and the readership’s taste, there are certain phenomena that suggest a neo-conservatory revolution aiming at a come-back of good taste in culture.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 63
  • Page Range: 119-122
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian