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What is Literature for? Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 30~November~2006

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Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question \textquotedblleftWhat is literature?\textquotedblright, the critical and political question \textquotedblleftWhat can literature do?\textquotedblright begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? \textquotedblleftMy confidence in the future of literature\textquotedblright, wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it\textquotedblright. Is this still relevant to us today?
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hal-02516145 , version 1 (23-03-2020)

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Antoine Compagnon. What is Literature for? Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 30~November~2006. Collège de France, 2014, Leçons inaugurales, 978-2-7226-0275-5. ⟨hal-02516145⟩
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