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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

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