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LUIS ALEMANY
Madrid
Updated on Wednesday, 26May2021-01: 43
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When we read literature The era of the 'best seller'
Is culture expensive?
A study of cultural inflation
Last third of the 19th century:
War and Peace
(1867) has 1,225 pages;
Anna Karenina
(1877), 1041;
and
La regenta
(1844), 988.
First half of the 20th century:
The Great Gatsby
(1925) stays in 218;
San Manuel Bueno, martyr
(1931), in 176;
and
The Old Man and the Sea
(1951), at 127.
Second half of the 20th century and to the present day:
The name of the rose
(1980) reached 535 pages and was the
best seller
that created the mold of our time.
The Infinite Joke
(1996) by David Foster Wallace is over 1,200 pages long.
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