Freethinkers Versus the Monsterverse: An Excerpt from “The New Enlightenment”

LARB PRESENTS AN EXCERPT from Peter B. Kaufman’s The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge, out today from Seven Stories Press. ¤ In Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal’s comic allegory about the life of the printed word in Czechoslovakia, the wise fool Hanta — Hrabal’s hero — works at a pulping press, […] The post Freethinkers Versus the Monsterverse: An Excerpt from “The New Enlightenment” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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