[Reading-hall-of-fame] Rights of the reader

[Colin Harrison]

Hi Norm

Below are Daniel Pennac’s “rights”. I  wrote about them in Chapter 1 of “Understanding Reading Development” (Sage, 2004).

He also wrote “The written word creates a shock from which one never recovers”. RIP Toni Morrison....

In his preface to Comme un roman (Paris: Editions Gallimard/Folio, 1992), Pennac begs its reader not to use the book as an "instrument de torture pedagogique." He  enumerates 10 Inalienable Rights of the Reader:

  1.  The right to not read,

  2.  The right to skip pages,

  3.  The right to not finish a book,

  4.  The right to reread,

  5.  The right to read anything,

  6.  The right to "Bovary-ism," a textually-transmitted disease,

  7.  The right to read anywhere,

  8.  The right to sample and steal ("grappiller")

  9.  The right to read out-loud, and,

  10. The right to be silent.

Best regards

Colin

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