Description
As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Both provocative and timely, "Burn this Book" includes a sterling list of award-winning writers; it is sure to ignite spirited dialogue. In "Witness: The Inward Testimony", Nadine Gordimer discusses the role of the writer as observer, and as someone who sees what is really taking place. She looks to Proust, Oe, Flaubert, Graham Green to see how their philosophy squares with her own, ultimately concluding Literature has been and remains a means of people rediscovering themselves. In "Freedom to Write", Orham Pamuk elegantly describes escorting Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter around Turkey and how that experience changed his life. In "The Value of the Word" Salman Rushdie shares a story from Bugakov's novel "The Master and the Margarita", in which the Devil talks to a frustrated writer called The Master. The writer is so upset with his own work he decides to burn it: How could you do that? The devil asks. Manuscripts do not burn. Indeed, manuscripts do not burn, Rushdie argues, but writers do.
About the Author
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and, most recently, A Mercy. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.
Reviews
"It's a slim volume, one that can be read in an afternoon, but don't let this fool you into thinking it lacks power. Morrison's-and the book's-central thesis is true, if not necessarily original: 'A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.'" - Los Angeles Times
Book Information
ISBN 9780061774010
Author Toni Morrison
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint HarperPaperbacks
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Weight(grams) 118g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm * 7mm
About the Author
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and, most recently, A Mercy. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.
Reviews
"It's a slim volume, one that can be read in an afternoon, but don't let this fool you into thinking it lacks power. Morrison's-and the book's-central thesis is true, if not necessarily original: 'A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.'" - Los Angeles Times
Book Information
ISBN 9780061774010
Author Toni Morrison
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint HarperPaperbacks
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Weight(grams) 118g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm * 7mm
