WHAT BOOKS’ HEROES READ  Cover Image

Ce citesc eroii cartilor
WHAT BOOKS’ HEROES READ

Author(s): Adrian Mihalache
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: virtual world; literature as self-delusion; Don Quixote libros de entretenimiento; libros de entendimiento; Cervantes; Hamlet; Prospero; Shakespeare; Francesca da Rimini; Paolo Malatesta; Dante; Anna Karenina; Proust; Ducess of Guermantes; W.S. Maugham; I

Summary/Abstract: Enumerating literary characters that read certain books – such as don Quixote, Hamlet, Anna Karenina, to mention only a few of the telling examples the author gives from the numerous works of world literature along the centuries – the author comments on the virtual world of literature – a dangerous one – as a means to evade reality, on literature as a creator of an alternative world, on reading as self-delusion, as a lucid text analysis or as a means to understand an unbearable reality.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 58
  • Page Range: 49-52
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian
Toggle Accessibility Mode