Birkerts, Sven P.
Title: Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse (Graywolf Forum)
Binding: Paper Back
Book Condition: New
Publisher: Graywolf Press August 1996
1555972489 / 9781555972486
Seller ID: 20080812145586
When the great Russian writer Tolstoy was first offered the use of a brand new invention called the Dictaphone, he refused it, saying that it was sure to be "too dreadfully exciting" and would distract him from his literary endeavors.
For this provocative launch of the Graywolf Forum series, Sven Birkerts invited a number of literary writers to tell him how they were reacting to the technological innovatios of our day. Do the "dreadful excitements" promised by a digital future cause us to forfeit our time-honored cultural traditions for dubious gain? Or will the electronic millennium usher in an unprecedented age of interconnectedness and opportunities for wider communication?
In the tradition of the Graywolf Annuals, this first "Graywolf Forum" presents a wide range of responses from contemporary creative writers.
Daniel Mark Epstein
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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Birkerts, Sven P.
Title: Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse (Graywolf Forum)
Binding: Paper Back
Book Condition: New
Publisher: Graywolf Press August 1996
1555972489 / 9781555972486
Seller ID: 20080812145586
When the great Russian writer Tolstoy was first offered the use of a brand new invention called the Dictaphone, he refused it, saying that it was sure to be "too dreadfully exciting" and would distract him from his literary endeavors.
For this provocative launch of the Graywolf Forum series, Sven Birkerts invited a number of literary writers to tell him how they were reacting to the technological innovatios of our day. Do the "dreadful excitements" promised by a digital future cause us to forfeit our time-honored cultural traditions for dubious gain? Or will the electronic millennium usher in an unprecedented age of interconnectedness and opportunities for wider communication?
In the tradition of the Graywolf Annuals, this first "Graywolf Forum" presents a wide range of responses from contemporary creative writers.
Daniel Mark Epstein
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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The text passage provides bibliographic information and a summary of the book "Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse" by Sven Birkerts. It does not contain any mathematical questions or answers.

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