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Proust And The Squid: The Story Of Science And The Reading Brain By Maryanne Wolf

Posted at 5:10PM Thursday 13 Mar 2008

A book in praise of reading verges on tautology. Nobody likely to read Proust and the Squid will need to be told that reading generates thought, or that it gives a feeling of inner selfhood. Maryanne Wolf puts Proust into her book because she likes his account of reading's pleasures.

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