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Why you should read the Hungarian master of the apocalypse

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageAn author who demands to be read.Gyula Czimbal/EPA

Like league tables in education, the danger of literary prizes is that something with value beyond the all-consuming capitalist pursuit of excellence becomes reduced to a kind of sporting event.

This is one effect of the often-quoted puff copy by Susan Sontag which first aroused my curiosity in the...

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