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The Review of Contemporary Fiction - 9781564785909

Un libro in lingua di O'Brien John (EDT) Riker Martin (EDT) Malin Irving (EDT) edito da W W Norton & Co Inc, 2009

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In 2007, Orion Press put out a series of abridged classics, including Moby-Dick In Half the Time. Adam Gopnik famously called the Melville abridgment "all Dick, no Moby"-but what actually happens when the work of a writer of texture and digression is cut in the service of clarity and plot? ; or The Whale consists of every chapter, word, and punctuation mark, saved from the abridgers by Damion Searls. Some chapters of ; or The Whale are virtually untouched, while others consist only of a single adverb, or streams of punctuation. The result is beautiful, ridiculous, and gripping-and has a serious point to make about the literary values worth abridging for.

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