The great fight of the book against illiteracy, barbarity and information jamming
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About the Author:
Maria PILCHIN
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Institutul de Filologie „Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu” al USM
E-mail:maropil82[@]gmail.com
Abstract: This article is a critical comparative study of how reading contributes to human resilience in the face of ignorance, wilderness, and misinformation. The three novels – The Reader by Bernard Schlink, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda and The Reader from the Cave by Rui Zink – form a literary corpus from which we extracted the romanesque situations, characters and images of a homo legens who is resilient through the book, through reading, by meditating on what is read and by finding an existential meaning in it. Overcoming primary and functional illiteracy is a special theme of these books. The narrative plot contains the story of people, adults and teenagers, who possess a certain degree of understanding about life and the world, with the book serving as a source of support. In this context, reading does not merely substitute for existence; rather, it serves to enhance and enrich it.
Keywords: illiteracy, barbarism, information jamming, reading, library, book, reader,