Volume 35, Number 16 · October 27, 1988
A Star Is Born
By Robert Darnton
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction
by Jean Starobinski, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, with an introduction by Robert J. Morrissey
University of Chicago Press, 421 pp., $19.95 (paper)
What happens when a book becomes a classic? By what process does a text get set apart from all the other texts clamoring for attention? How does it survive the literary season, metamorphosed from edition to edition, reappear in paper-backs and secondhand shops, and settle at last on the shelves reserved for books here to stay?
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