Summary – Literature: yesterday, today, tomorrow

Summary

11. Chapter 1. In which some cards are placed on the table, others are hidden in the sleeve and i the Anonymous Readers Club is founded, to whose members a question is addressed: what is literature?
17. Chapter 2. In which we contemplate, with malice and irreverence, some surfaces faces of what is called literature
25. Chapter 3. In which surprising incontrovertible secrets and astonishing ways of being are revealed about the surfaces that encompass what is called literature
33. Chapter 4. In which tricks, masks and backstage make up of what is called literature are disclosed.
39. Chapter 5. In which the old, solid and very suspicious alliance between speech, idiom, literature and language is pointed to.
47. Chapter 6. In which the promiscuous alliance between various languages within what is called literature is caught
55. Chapter 7. In which the constant, intentional and harmful indecision of what is called literature is observed between the true, the believable and the fanciful
61. Chapter 8. In which, in response to requests, the Greeks are postponed, there is a jump over centuries and there is a study about premodernism and postmodernism: diffuse, profuse and confused isms that plague what is called literature
75. Chapter 9. In which the ear is trained to identify and proclaim Greek and Latin accents – authentic, false and authenticated – in what is called literature
85. Chapter 10. In which listening is refined to recognize and announce medieval tones – true, false and falsified – in what is called literature
95. Chapter 11. In which malicious glances and dense listening are sharpened to hear and see classic, baroque and (neo) classic profiles in what is called literature
109. Chapter 12. In which – with deep sighs, many tears and Chopin waltzes – it is possible to dance according to the sound of the romantic rhythm of what is called literature
129. Chapter 13. In which – stifling sighs, wiping tears and turning off Chopin – there are postromantic performances (realists & naturalists) of what is called literature
139. Chapter 14. In which flagrant crimes are registered in the credentials of Parnassianism, Symbolism and Premodernism, the stars of the moment in what is called literature
149. Chapter 15. In which, with all the cards at stake, the Club of Anonymous Readers places a high stake on what literature is today and bets tokens on what it might be tomorrow or later
165. Chapter 16. Suggested books for the library of the Anonymous Readers Club
167. References