A Reader-Errant and Literature: Some Remarks after Reading Mirosława Chuda’s Essay “A Reader-Errant”

Adam FITAS

Katedra Teorii i Antropologii Literatury, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Wydział Humanistyczny, Katolicki Uniwersytet Jana Pawła II, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland , Poland



Abstract

The paper includes a polemics with Mirosława Chuda’s essay “A Reader Errant” (see Mirosława Chuda, “A Reader Errant,” Ethos 29:4(116) (2016): 385-388). The polemics focuses on the seeming affinities between the habit of reading and addictions of other kinds, such as e.g. Internet addiction or substance abuse, and on the significance and the basic roles of books in human life.

Translated by Dorota Chabrajska

Keywords:

literature, reading, books, habit, addiction




Published
2020-01-12


FITAS, A. (2020). Błędny czytelnik i literatura. Uwagi po lekturze tekstu Mirosławy Chudej Błędny czytelnik. Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL, 30(1 (117). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/ethos/article/view/5228

Adam FITAS 
Katedra Teorii i Antropologii Literatury, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Wydział Humanistyczny, Katolicki Uniwersytet Jana Pawła II, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland