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

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Author Umberto Eco
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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