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9781550966565

Gambling With Failure

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  • ISBN13:

    9781550966565

  • ISBN10:

    1550966561

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-05-28
  • Publisher: Exile Editions

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Summary

Tomorrow's cultures will be acquired cultures. Learned cultures. Perhaps there never was such a thing as a pure culture . . . We have grown accustomed to false bread, robots, androids. Box-office success creates dead cultures, it fossilizes what should palpitate with passion. Success excludes. If the spotlight falls on false bread, and if that false bread is not strong enough to carry the expectations of buyers, people turn away, dissatisfied. Culture is what is left over when there is no more money, after the robots and androids have disappeared. Gambling with Failure is a personal journey into an understanding of how a "weak culture" can become what really counts in the end, how a failure today may be the great work of tomorrow.

Author Biography

Antonio D'Alfonso is a publisher, a translator, and the author of Un vendredi du mois d'août, which won the Trillium Award.

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