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A Novel Shouldn’t Make You Think, It Should Make You Shiver
February 27th, 2012 | philosophy of art | journalpulp | 2 Comments
In a lecture he delivered at Cornell University, Vladimir Nabokov said this: “A work of art shouldn’t make you think, it should make you shiver.” And yet in reply to that one must ask: what about those of us who actually like for a book to make us think? What about those of us who […]
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The Curious Lives — And Deaths — Of Writers And Artists
February 24th, 2012 | Writers | journalpulp | 6 Comments
Under threat of arrest during the Reign of Terror, the French writer Nicolas Chamfort (1741 — 1794) shot himself in the head and slit his own throat. Then died of pneumonia while recovering in his bed. Whereas Lavoisier was guillotined in the Reign of Terror. “A good book is twice as good if it’s short.” Said […]
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A Novel Shouldn’t Make You Think, It Should Make You Shiver