Villa triste (Folio) (French Edition)

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Being a social scientist myself, this question bothered me for a long time. However, once I started exploring some good authors, I quickly realized that reading literature might be more beneficial than reading social science books.

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The main reason why literature might dominate over social science such as sociology or psychology is that in it you might find much more realistic and broader depiction and understanding of human motives than in a usual social science book. In other words, with literature you are more likely to engage with all the various ways in which humans try to make sense of the world.

Here is how Taleb explains why literature is good:. Newspapers have officially the right facts, but their interpretations are imaginary — and their choice of facts are arbitrary. They lie with right facts; a novelist says the truth with wrong facts. Second, a lot of ideas mentioned in the world of literary fiction are yet to be studied and explained by social scientists. The best place to look for possible explanations is in the literature itself.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Favorite Literature Books

What this means is that if you try to learn about human behavior from social science books, your knowledge will be at best limited — if not fundamentally flawed. Jon Elster makes this remark in Explaining Social Behavior: Marcel Proust, author of the greatest novel of the twentieth century, spent much of his life frequenting salons, not only observing the goings-on in microscopic detail, but also identifying underlying psychological mechanisms.

Finally, it remains an open question whether ideas from philosophical novels should at all be investigated by scientific methods. This would mean destroying the rich world of human experience by using Procrustean bed of logic.

While reading it, I was trying to formulate its main idea — how would I retell to someone what this book is about. I was asking myself: Even worse, it would be undue.

To me fiction is not about ideas. It is above ideas.

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I make a divide between the holy, the sacred, the mysterious, the unexplainable, the implicit, the aesthetic, the moral, and the ethical on one hand, and the empirical, the functional, the explainable, the logical, the true, and the proven on the other. In short, the Holy and the Empirical. Literature belongs to the holy.

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You can do fiction, nonfiction, a mixture, who cares. Literature is above the distinction. Here are the books that Taleb listed as his favorites, reconstructed from this list. Rereading a novel is far more enjoyable than reading it for the first time.

Many I have read more than twice, some like Il deserto dei tartari, un taxi mauve, Paulina ,… , more than five times. Applicable only on ATM card, debit card or credit card orders. Cashback will be credited as Amazon Pay balance within 10 days. Valid only on your first 2 online payments. Cashback will be credited as Amazon Pay balance within 10 days from purchase.

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