Volume 41, Number 11 · June 9, 1994
A Case for Textual Harassment
By Umberto Eco, Translated by William Weaver
These days, especially in the United States, implacable copy editors demand of authors not only stylistic revisions but even changes in plot, new endings, whatever commercial necessity dictates. But when we Italians recall the summary way the novelist-editor Elio Vittorini dealt with young writers some decades ago, can we honestly say that they ordered things so differently in the past?
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