Unreadability
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| A text can be considered '''unreadable''' for a number of reasons. The [[vocabulary]] may be too difficult, see [[simple English]]. The [[frame of reference]] may be unfamiliar to the reader. | A text can be considered '''unreadable''' for a number of reasons. The [[vocabulary]] may be too difficult, see [[simple English]]. The [[frame of reference]] may be unfamiliar to the reader. | ||
| + | :"As [[readable]] as “The Da Vinci Code” was (and according to some critics, of hardly any literary value whatsoever), as [[unreadable]] is “[[Foucault’s Pendulum]]”. Indeed, after the success of his “[[The Name of the Rose]]”, Eco stated that he endeavoured to make the first 50-60 pages of his novels as [[difficult]] as possible, creating an initiatory test for the reader, whereby few who had bought the book succeeded in actually reading the entire book. In Foucault’s Pendulum, published in Italian in 1988, once having passed this initiatory number of pages, the story remains difficult to follow, interspersed as it is with what seem to be irrelevant passages, little stories which add little if anything to the development of the plot."[http://www.philipcoppens.com/foucault.html] | ||
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A text can be considered unreadable for a number of reasons. The vocabulary may be too difficult, see simple English. The frame of reference may be unfamiliar to the reader.
- "As readable as “The Da Vinci Code” was (and according to some critics, of hardly any literary value whatsoever), as unreadable is “Foucault’s Pendulum”. Indeed, after the success of his “The Name of the Rose”, Eco stated that he endeavoured to make the first 50-60 pages of his novels as difficult as possible, creating an initiatory test for the reader, whereby few who had bought the book succeeded in actually reading the entire book. In Foucault’s Pendulum, published in Italian in 1988, once having passed this initiatory number of pages, the story remains difficult to follow, interspersed as it is with what seem to be irrelevant passages, little stories which add little if anything to the development of the plot."[1]
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