Reality Hunger Analysis

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Little kids are the only ones who like fiction books and situations. That statement is mostly true for David Shields, the author of the book, “Reality Hunger." Shields wrote a book that has passages, also called provocations of different quotes and subjects that other writers have said, he includes some passages that he has written too, but he is stating what he thinks about the other authors statements and words and giving responses to them. He connects the state of literature at the moment, the plagiarism in books and stories, the increase of unnatural and fictional memoirs, and the overall weakness of the novel. He also mentions culture that isn 't literature including reality TV, and the variety of documentary film. The authors are not
"Reality Hunger," though, is not just a strategy for a new kind of genre, it is also a series of short provocations. David Shields has 618 provocations in his book, arranged under alphabetical, rather than numerical, chapters. Chapter A is entitled "overture"; chapter B, "mimesis"; chapter C, "books for people who find television too slow”. Reality Hunger is composed of a certain kind of endlessly referential, post-modernist literary criticism
Talking with friends about a book that loses people 's interest quickly happens a lot, to me at least. David Sheilds ' book didn 't lose my interest but it was hard to follow because of the short provocations that are given in this book. In addition, the provocations do not really follow along with each one and that made it harder to concentrate on the book. Another weakness of the book is that David should have given more input on matters of the subjects because I feel like that would keep the reader 's attention better. Reality Hunger being close to almost the total opposite of a manifesto when it says "a manifesto" on the cover of the book threw me off while reading the book because a manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives and views of the issuer. Although Shields is voicing his opinion about how authors and writers should be focusing more on reality, he doesn 't declare exactly what he wants to happen. In the end of the book the reader can connect all of his points and analyze what Shields is trying to

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