We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human – what Lesser means by “grandeur and intimacy” – and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the continuum between those shifting poles, to welcome a gravid agitation or be willing to undergo some form of personal torsion; to have our personhood both threatened and amplified. William Giraldi
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Peter Gizzi, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, believes that a work of literature is a force that makes a person feel almost as if they can hear a voice from the other side. He believes that writers should have the ability to take the reader to another place and speak to them. That's why he believes that great writers should have this ability.

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