The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything Is Fire by Eric Bronson & William Irwin

Author:Eric Bronson & William Irwin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: film studies, philosophy
ISBN: 9780470947586
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-11-02T04:00:00+00:00

Given the serial nature of popular fiction, its readers might be said to read horizontally, eager to get to the end of one book and into the next in a series or into the next author within a genre.

We can see how the serial nature of fiction works within Larsson’s novels—each book in some sense can function as a stand-alone reading experience, but they’re most enjoyable when read as one long story. Readers of literature, on the other hand, tend to read vertically, reading slowly for depth of meaning. And just as we might say that readers have certain expectations of literature, literature has expectations of its readers. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), a particularly literary philosopher, described his ideal reader in Ecce Homo: “When I try to picture the character of a perfect reader, I always imagine a monster of courage and curiosity, as well as of suppleness, cunning, and prudence—in short, a born adventurer and explorer.”14

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