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19.9.10

The Rights of the Reader - illustrated poster

"In its preface, the book by Daniel Pennac called "Comme un roman" (Paris: Editions Gallimard/Folio, 1992), begs its reader not to use the book as an "instrument de torture pedagogique."

Pennac also enumerates 10 Inalienable Rights of the Reader:

  1. The right to not read,
  2. The right to skip pages,
  3. The right to not finish a book,
  4. The right to reread,
  5. The right to read anything,
  6. The right to "Bovary-ism," a textually-transmitted disease,
  7. The right to read anywhere,
  8. The right to sample and steal ("grappiller")
  9. The right to read out-loud, and,
 10. The right to be silent.

The illustrated poster (by Quentin Blake) based on these rights is available online:

Small version (jpeg)

Larger version (PDF)
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