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Burn This Book

Burn This Book

Notes on Literature and Engagement

By Toni Morrison

Paperback | ISBN 9780061774010

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As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Both provocative and timely, Burn this Book includes a sterling list of award-winning writers; it is sure to ignite spirited dialogue.

In "Witness: The Inward Testimony," Nadine Gordimer discusses the role of the writer as observer, and as someone who sees "what is really taking place." She looks to Proust, Oe, Flaubert, Graham Green to see how their philosophy squares with her own, ultimately concluding "Literature has been and remains a means of people rediscovering themselves." In "Freedom to Write" Orham Pamuk elegantly describes escorting Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter around Turkey and how that experience changed his life.

In "The Value of the Word" Salman Rushdie shares a story from Bugakov's novel The Master and the Margarita, in which the Devil talks to a frustrated writer called "The Master." The writer is so upset with his own work he decides to burn it: "How could you do that" the devil asks. "Manuscripts do not burn." Indeed, manuscripts do not burn, Rushdie argues, but writers do.

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BOOK DETAILS

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780061774010
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Number of pages: 128
Width (mm): 135
Height (mm): 203
Depth (mm): 7

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