In his forthcoming book Reading Relations: How Authors Enter Our Lives, Australian English professor Dan Dixon offers a proposition that will probably seem obvious to most people. When we read books, sometimes we fall in love with them and may even come to consider the author and the characters as friends.
This is obvious to anyone who has ever experienced that intense feeling while reading a book. And yet Dixon’s thesis, at least in the academic world, will probably come across as revolutionary—or rather, counterrevolutionary.
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