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Matthieu Binder’s website, litteraturefrancaise.net, and the pleasure of reading books
Published Jun 11, 2025
Updated Jun 17, 2025
Culture
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Culture
Published Jun 11, 2025
Updated Jun 17, 2025
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Matthieu Binder’s website, litteraturefrancaise.net, and the pleasure of reading books
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By Claudia Moscovici
Albert Einstein famously stated, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” This standard of simplicity generally applies to Physics and high-level mathematics, fields that value “elegant proofs,” which are concise, intuitive, unifying, generalizable and original. But we can apply this principle, at least by analogy, to the arts and humanities, and above all to accessible fields such as literature. I say literature above all, because reading novels, poetry and plays is most of all about engaging in the incomparable escape and pleasure of imagination, which are universal. Anissa Trisdianty is quoted as saying “Reading is dreaming with your eyes open.” Indeed, literature occupies a unique place among the arts in awakening our imaginations, as i
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