Article: Gabriel Zaid. The Secret of Fame: The Literary Encounter in an Age of Distraction.(Book review)

Gabriel Zaid. The Secret of Fame: The Literary Encounter in an Age of Distraction. Natasha Wimmer, tr. Philadelphia. Paul Dry. 2008. 182 pages. $14.95. ISBN 978-1-58988-038-2

Readers' manifestos, hatchet jobs, lists, how to tall about books you never read, French defenses of literature, post-theory, the death of the critic, and similar forms of "resistance literature" abound today. A reviewer expressed surprise at the erudition that a solidly documented and decidedly Western take on those problems comes from Gabriel Zaid, a renowned Mexican cultural critic and also the author of So Many Books (2003). There is really no need for the astonishment, unless one still ...

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