АПОЛОГИЯ ЧТЕНИЯ
APOLOGIA FOR READING
Author(s): Marina ŞulmanSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Library and Information Science
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: National Reading Day; Muriel Barbery; The Elegance of the Hedgehog; Intercultural Diffusion; Leo Tolstoy; Anna Karenina; War and Peace; literary aesthetics; subtext; beauty; wabi;
Summary/Abstract: In connection with the proclamation of the National Reading Day, on February 14 in Moldova since 2022, this paper presents the arguments of psychologists and philologists, writers and poets, testifying to the benefits of reading, with which the author of the article agrees. The second part of the article is devoted to the apology of reading in Muriel Barbery’s novel ,,The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, in which reading acts as a multi-valued symbol and motif that permeates all levels of the novel: socio-psychological, symbolic and ideological and philosophical.
Journal: Confluenţe Bibliologice
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 143-167
- Page Count: 25
- Language: Russian