The Failed Text

Download or read book The Failed Text written by José Luis Martínez-Dueñas Espejo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are numerous ways to understand failure in literature: failure to produce a work of demonstrable literary merit, or failure to publish a work despite such merit; failure to see something translated, adapted or performed adequately, or indeed to see it translated, adapted or performed at all; failure to establish a connection with the contemporary reading public, failure to please critics, or to charm readers and hence the failure to achieve substantial sales. An author or a literary wor...