Word: reader
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...does the reader fit into this complex structure of interwoven times and multiple voices? "Terra Nostra," for example, has often been considered unreadable by critics. Yet Fuentes emphasizes that in spite of its difficulty, it is a novel which does not go unread. "The Death of Artemio Cruz" and "Where the Air is Clear" were both considered extremely difficult and complicated when they first appeared. Fuentes tells of one critic who suggested that "The Death of Artemio Cruz" served no better purpose than to be flushed down the drain. "Today," Fuentes says, "these novels are read by 15 year-olds...
Consistent with his considerable humanistic impulses, Penn casts the story in the mold of a relationship drama between father and son, but the action soon takes over, and Penn simply can't keep his characters ahead of it. In a recent interview, Penn told the L.A. Reader he wanted to make a "popcorn" movie after the commercial failure of his Four Friends, but what's emerged was an unhappy hybrid of character and action. At unexpected moments, in well-observed snatches of behavior and individual shots, just enough character is conveyed and just enough emotional content to keep the audience...
...These circles are always eager to greet with applause any apparent weakness of this theory. It is regrettable, therefore, that so often the slightest remark of a lecturer on the necessity of expanding our view of evolution immediately evokes comments from journalists about the inexorable demise of Darwinisn. The reader is left then with the impression that all is not well with the Darwininan theory of evolution...
...target audience for such essays is "the lay reader, anyone who is interested in watching a good mind at work on the page," said Bauer...
...semiotician's practiced eye, society's every phenomenon and event is a text inviting interpretation, an opportunity for writing oneself into the margins of the scene as reader-critic-author. Not that the margins are without their privileges. Blonsky observes--as no less than a cataclysm--the recent deaths of Roland Barthes, Roman Jakobson, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, whose posthumous presence in the collection reflects how the "death of the authors" has ironically inaugurated a backward-looking era for cultural literacy. At the same time, Blonsky's exclusive salon is also visited by still-vital voices such as Umberto...