Franco Moretti > Quotes

“Reading ‘more’ is always a good thing, but not the solution.”
― Franco Moretti, Distant Reading

“What can I do, I like Balzac better than Dickens, forgive me.”
― Franco Moretti

“Literature is the fragment of fragments’, wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister’s Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age: ‘the least part of all that ever happened and was spoken was written down, and of what was written only the least part has survived . . .’.”
― Franco Moretti, Distant Reading

“Literature is the fragment of fragments’, wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister’s Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age:”
― Franco Moretti, Distant Reading

“World literature is not an object, it’s a problem, and a problem that asks for a new critical method; and no one has ever found a method by just reading more texts”
― Franco Moretti

“Trees and branches are what nation states cling to; waves are what markets do.”
― Franco Moretti, Distant Reading