'' LITERATURE IS GOING TO GO THE WAY OF OPERA'' a quote and idea by Paul Verhaeghen in Atlanta, brilliant idea. and sad too. maybe true?
'' LITERATURE IS GOING TO GO THE WAY OF OPERA'' -- a quote and idea by novelist, blogger and thinker Paul Verhaeghen in Atlanta, brilliant idea. And sad too. WHAT SAY YOU? (leave comments below, o ye who love books and literature!)
maybe true?
posted by dan at 5:43 AM
1 Comments:
To conjecture, I would be surprised if literature is going the way of the dodo. What I do predict (not a hard prediction to make, methinks) is that literature is going the way of the opera. That process started long before computers and kindles landed in every lap.
Paul Verhaeghen
Midtown Atlanta, GA
Novelist. Latest novel: Omega Minor (Dalkey Archive Press USA; Eichborn GER; Meulenhoff-Manteau BE/NL; to come: Lot 49 FRA). Omega Minor won the Bordewijk award (Holland), the triannual Cultuurprijs voor Proza van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap (Belgium), and the triannual Prijs Letterkunde van de Vlaamse Provincies (Belgium), as well as the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (UK). Cognitive psychologist, working at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Self-proclaimed misanthrope (the 'mis' part extending to himself).
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