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Reading as Rebellion

I wonder if there might not be a relationship between the expulsion of literature and the deterioration of our democracies.

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Reading as Rebellion

In a two-month period between late February and early May, the reporter conducted two courses on Latin American literature at the Sciences Po University in Paris. After the classes concluded, the institution requested a brief public reflection on this unique experience, which did not seem ordinary to the reporter. The activity involved listening to the mystery of invented lives through the words of others.

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