
The Scapegoat: René Girard's Anthropology of Violence and Religion
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What Makes a Book Like Don Quixote?
A book was a masterpiece only if it was absolutely one of a kind, he says. "If you could find nothing in it, that would be in another book" He became interested in human relations in the novel and how close it is to snubbery in post. A friend who has a very good friend decides everything for him but refuses to court his wife. That's what I realized that content matters - this was really the key to my whole literary enterprise."
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