The Yale Review | Michel Chaouli: "Do You Actually Have to Finish…
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A critic and self-described "nonfinisher" considers why we feel guilty about abandoning books—and what the endings of novels can teach us about the…
The Yale Review | Michel Chaouli: "Do You Actually Have to Finish… Essays Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel? A critic considers the strange moral pressure we feel to read to the very last page Michel Chaouli Idris Khan, Every... page of Roland Barthes' book Camera Lucida, 2004. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly, New York Let’s say I have bought a book, a novel. I wait for a quiet hour, close the door to my room, sit in the most comfortable chair I have, maybe put up my feet. I know virtually nothing about this novel, about its characters and themes, nothing about the tone. Since I don
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