Why literature is bad for you

by Peter Thorpe

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882294865
• ISBN13: 9780882294865
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Nelson-Hall
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Original, Unusual, Insane, and Excellent

This book is both charming and irritating. I recommend it highly DESPITE the fact that the prose is poorly written, the ideas often pedestrian, and the attitude is--to be charitable and Nietzschean-- "unzeitgemässig." Still, anyone who is trapped in Academe will be both entertained by this book and perhaps moved to deep thought.

Deserves More than 5 stars...Indespensable!

Buy this book quickly and pay whatever the bookseller asks! This one-of-a-kind book will change the way you think about literature. I love literature, and so does the author,but its dark side is seldom discussed. It can make you lazy, it can make you a chronic contrarian, it can be a trojan horese which slips silly ideas into your mind which you would never accept if they were presented to you as rational arguments(the perfect example of this is the fact that we're supposed to sympathize with Mersault in Camu's "The Stranger," even though he shot a man for the simple reason that the sun was in his eyes.) The publisher needs to keep this book constantly in print..