In Socrates' time, an orator was accustomed to ask his audience which genre or mode of expression was preferred: myth i.e., narrative — or logical ar… - Tzvetan Todorov
" "In Socrates' time, an orator was accustomed to ask his audience which genre or mode of expression was preferred: myth i.e., narrative — or logical argumentation? In the age of the book, this decision cannot be left to the audience: the choice must be made in order for the book to exist and one merely imagines (or hopes for) an audience that will have given one answer rather than the other; one also tries to listen to the answer suggested or imposed by the subject itself.
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About Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov (1 March 1939 - 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist, essayist and geologist.
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Pourquoi j’aime la littérature… parce qu’elle m’aide à vivre. … Plus dense, plus éloquente que la vie quotidienne mais non radicalement différente, la littérature élargit notre univers, nous incite à imaginer d’autres manières de la concevoir et de l’organiser. Loin d’être un simple agrément, une distraction réservée aux personnes éduquées, elle permet à chacun de mieux répondre à sa vocation d’être humain.
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