Chapter 31 banned book

banned book Last time I talked about the prosecution in New York of the English translation of Gide's autobiography, I forgot to point out that it was not The publisher is "Langton Bookstore", but the consignor is "Guo Danmu Book Market".because new york weathered The plainclothes members of the maintenance club first went to Longton Bookstore to buy "Gide's Autobiography", which was only printed for 1,500 yuan. The volume of this book has already been sold out, so this person went to Guo Dam's book market to buy it.Guo Dam It is a new and second-hand bookstore. It is famous for selling rare and exotic books in New York. It was once sued by the Weathering Maintenance Association.

Many times, this time there are indeed many books of Gide's autobiography, so after the visitor got the invoice, He was sued as a defendant. I read a recent New York Times review the day before yesterday, and found on the back page that there was a small Fang advertised that there were still several volumes of Gide's autobiography in storage, and each volume was still sold at US$5.From here wide To file a lawsuit, knowing that they have won the lawsuit, the New York Weather Maintenance Association has been stumped again, I was very happy, and then I asked the bookstore to buy this book in New York for the third time. Whether I can get my wish this time, I wonder

It will take another month to find out. It reminds me of this amusing little book by Anne L. Haight: Banned Books.This book is full of jokes, full of human beings stain on cultural history.According to Ms Hyatt, in 1931, "Alice's Adventures" The Chinese translation of "A Tale of Wonderland" was once banned in Hunan Province, China, on the grounds that "birds and beasts should not be spoken by humans, especially It should not distinguish between man and beast." I never knew this, and I don't know if what she said is true. If so, Being ridiculed that we don't even know what fables and fairy tales are, this is really better than other social sciences.

It is even more ridiculous to ban books on sexology or sex science. Of course, it's not just us who are ridiculous.The U.S. Customs once took the Renaissance master Michael Langchi The photography of the mural "The Last Judgment" that Luo made for the Pope was confiscated as a pornographic book.Soviet Union The censors in China capitalized the word "God" in a certain textbook, and once put Millions of textbooks were reprinted in order to be suspected of advocating "theism".Paris police The poet was in the Reading "Johnson's Actions" in the Montparnasse Cemetery, the attitude is solemn and not frivolous.

Ms. Hyatt cited so many banned book titles that it is almost unbelievable that human beings have Such an excellent culture has been produced on one side, but why such stupidity remains on the other side.She also raised a A joke, in 1935, a Russian opera was played at a concert in Philetia, USA, Many female listeners thought that the tone of a certain speaker was too obscene, and they once withdrew from the meeting on the spot and asked for it to be banned. end.