[ZEE JLF Soundbytes] When Book Censors Are The Best Readers
1 min readJan 23, 2015
Wasn’t it Walter Benjamin who once said that Baudelaire was better understood in his time by those who were against his writing, than those who were gushing over him?
Get Antiserious’s stories in your inbox
Join Medium for free to get updates from this writer.
At the second day of ZEE JLF, Argentine writer Alberto Manguel had something similar to say. In telling us that sometimes censors are the better readers, he recounted an interesting incident about Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Listen to find out what book Pinochet had banned and why.
