Fabrizio Ulivieri - TrendSetter

Lo que falta al 99% de lo que se publica es la densidad narrativa; por eso me aburro al leer. Cuando una página no añade una idea, una tensión, una revelación, una imagen o una transformación, la percibo como tiempo perdido. Eso me explica perfectamente por qué puedo admirar a Dostoyevski y, al mismo tiempo, aburrirme muchísimo con él, pues muchas veces no es falta de densidad narrativa, sino que tiene demasiada densidad narrativa que al final, por eso mismo, colapsa. ------------ Telegram: De Unamuno Whatsapp: De Unamuno Facebook: De Unamuno Academia:   https://independent.academia.edu/fulivieri 

His most recent book, Why should I read books if the 99% is shit? had become to his surprise an enormous success. Some Lithuanian publishers that in the past never considered his works started inviting him to lecture to Vilniaus Universitetas students of Literature and to some book presentations in the city. During these lectures, he was many times asked why he thought that 90% of published books were crap. In his support, he mentioned Sturgeon's law. Many of the people he lectured didn't know anything of Sturgeon’s law. So he had to recap it for them. Sturgeon's law is an adage - he used to start - that states that 90% of everything is crap. It was coined by Theodore Sturgeon, an American science fiction author and critic, who was tired of defending his genre from critics who used the worst examples of science fiction as ammunition against him. He realized that most works in other fields were also low-quality, and so science fiction was no different. He first expressed hi...