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"It's 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He's bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at literary arts. Obsessed by literature and its future (or lack thereof), he reads everything he can in order to translate reality into the literary delirium that is Readopolis-a world imagined out of Chicago and Montreal, with few inhabitants, a convenience store, a parrot, and all kinds of dialogues running amok: cinematic, epistolary, theatrical, and Socratic. In the pages of Readopolis, Laverdure playfully examines the idea that human beings are more connected by their reading abilities than by anything else. Funny and sardonic, whimsical and tragic, this postmodern novel with touches of David Foster Wallace and Raymond Queneau portrays the global village of readers that the Internet created, even before the 2.0 revolution."--… (plus d'informations)
This is a book about the importance of reading and literacy in the life of its protagonist, Ghislain. He is a professional reader of unsolicited manuscripts -- paid piece-work, so he also works at a convenience store. Literature plays a big role in his life -- probably too big a role as he seems to have trouble remaining grounded in the real world. The novel also examines Quebec literary culture. People more familiar with that genre will probably get more out of this novel than I did, but Ghislain was an interesting enough character, and the literary theme was strong enough to keep me going. The author used a variety of styles to make the structure/creativity of the book notable in itself. ( )
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He who is born today is meant for a much more intensely intellectual life than he who was born a hundred thousand years ago; and yet, notwithstanding the intensity of his individual life, his intelligence will be found to be, so to speak, much more socialized; precisely because of its being so much richer, it will possess much less for itself alone. It is the same with sensibility. --Jean-Marie Guyau, A Sketch of Morality Independent of Obligation of Sanction, translated by Gertrude Kapteyn
Where shall I find the time to do all this non-reading? -- Karl Kraus, Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms, translated by Harry Zohn
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In memory of Thomas Braichet (1977-2008)
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I'm resting.
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We advance without knowing the end. Holding it within us, because we have yet to arrive there.
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"It's 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He's bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at literary arts. Obsessed by literature and its future (or lack thereof), he reads everything he can in order to translate reality into the literary delirium that is Readopolis-a world imagined out of Chicago and Montreal, with few inhabitants, a convenience store, a parrot, and all kinds of dialogues running amok: cinematic, epistolary, theatrical, and Socratic. In the pages of Readopolis, Laverdure playfully examines the idea that human beings are more connected by their reading abilities than by anything else. Funny and sardonic, whimsical and tragic, this postmodern novel with touches of David Foster Wallace and Raymond Queneau portrays the global village of readers that the Internet created, even before the 2.0 revolution."--
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