When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existenc — Tzvetan Todorov
When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existenc — Tzvetan Todorov
When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existenc — Tzvetan Todorov
When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existenc — Tzvetan Todorov
When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existenc — Tzvetan Todorov
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When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature

— Tzvetan Todorov
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