Monday, January 15, 2007
More from MLA's Profession 2006
As though in response to Kristeva's thesis (see my post on Kristeva's piece in Profession below), Ariel Dorfman writes in the same volume: "the most formidable intellectual challenge of our era is not how to reach out yet again to the thousands who admire Susan Sontag but how to connect with the sixty-five million Americans who read the apocalyptic Left Behind series."
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I think the notice given to Left Behind as (faux-?) literature is already too much behind the times. I noticed in airports this Christmas that the airport bookstores no longer have complete sets of the books, and that Sam Harris' Letter to a Christian Nation and The End of Faith and that Dawkins' God Delusion are now prominently displayed. The market has no shame or soul, that's for sure.
You're probably right. Still, do you think readers of LaHaye and Jenkins have switched over to Dawkins? An abrupt political change and the book market shifts . . . but doesn't the taste for fire and fury remain the same?
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