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The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania
Introduction: why do people write? -- First paradox : the current concert and the distant melody -- Second paradox : the lottery and the ruse -- Third paradox : the renunciation and the reward -- Fourth paradox : the proper noun and the common noun...
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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MK 0 4 Lit. Hof.1
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Introduction: why do people write? -- First paradox : the current concert and the distant melody -- Second paradox : the lottery and the ruse -- Third paradox : the renunciation and the reward -- Fourth paradox : the proper noun and the common noun -- Fifth paradox : the flow and the entity -- Sixth paradox : the distance and the judgement -- Seventh paradox : the Rosetta Stone and Agrippina's Thrush -- Eighth paradox : the manuscript and the USB key -- Ninth paradox : the comet and the astronomer -- Conclusion : why do people (still) write?. "Examines the paradoxes inherent in the search for symbolic immortality, arguing that there is only one truly serious literary problem: the transmission of texts to posterity"--
