“ A jealous man enjoys picturing what he wishes would not happen—but at the same time he refuses to believe that it can happen—whereas a storyteller resorts to every artifice to see not only that the reader enjoys imagining what has not happened but also that at a certain point he forgets that he is reading and believes it really did happen. ”
Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before (1994). copy citation
Author | Umberto Eco |
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Source | The Island of the Day Before |
Topic | reading artifice |
Date | 1994 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by William Weaver |
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