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>introduction is 35 pages

>> No.7482381
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>>7482372
>doesnt skip the introduction immediately

>> No.7482382

short. so what.

>> No.7482404
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7482404

>intro focuses on shit like giving a freudian post-colonial feminist interpretation instead of giving us useful historical and biographical context

>> No.7482411
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7482411

>introduction is 20 pages of a guy talking about how many mistakes the previous translator made and how he did a much better job and is in general more educated and cooler

>> No.7482457
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>For Pops

>> No.7482461

>>7482411
>translations

>> No.7482465

>>7482461
>bitch

>> No.7482467

>>7482461
get fucked

>> No.7482480

>chapter one starts on page 45

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>>7482372
>Introduction was a brief summary of historical context and brief bio of the author.
>read it once I finished anyway

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>>7482404
>intro is long but is nothing but useful historical and biographical context

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7482508

>introduction by someone who isn't the author

>> No.7482527
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7482527

>Foreword
>Gives away major plot points

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>>7482506
>it's a Lain episode

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7482532

>finish introduction
>turn page
>Information On The Translation

>> No.7482535

>introduction summarises the entire plot in a few sentences

>> No.7482539

>>7482532
>notes to the information about the translation

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7482546

>author uses intro for acknowledgements
>still has an acknowledgements at the end.

>> No.7482556

>>7482546
>he makes acknowledgements in seemingly random spots in the novel, paying tribute to the inspiration.

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7482567

>introduction is a commentator oscillating between how wrong the author was and how much right he was while sentimentalizing about how classic it is

>> No.7482580
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7482580

>Forward

>Preface

>Introduction

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7482636

>for Véra

>> No.7482640

>not reading the introduction last

>> No.7482727

>>7482461
Are you able to read Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Garcia Marquez and Erich Remarque in original?

>> No.7482761

>>7482640
>reading the introduction

>> No.7483232

>being such a fanny you get worried about sections of the book you don't even have to read

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7483245

>notes don't go on for at least half the size of the text

>> No.7483263

>introduction is 20 pages explaining how said author is definitely not one of the country's greatest and was generally a pussy bitch

Who the fuck thought Haruki murukami should write the introduction to Akutugawa's stories? Fucking penguin

>> No.7483329

>>7483232
You don't have to read any part of any book, family.

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7483555

>author says she loathes introductions
>adds a foreword

>> No.7483558

>>7483555
who does this?

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>>7483555
>author
>she

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>>7483558
>>7483559

The greatest American author of the 20th century.

>> No.7483561

>>7483559
well memed

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>>7482372
>introduction is longer than the story

>> No.7483565
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7483565

>editor's introduction
>translator's introduction to the first edition
>translator's introduction to the second edition
>translator's introduction to the third edition
>translator's forward
>author's forward
>author's introduction

>> No.7483571

>>7483565
>copy of the communist manifesto
>over 200 page introduction about communism and different interpretations of marxism
>followed by 7 prefaces to all the editions
what the fuck penguin

>> No.7483572

>>7483565
>notes to the translator's introduction

>> No.7483703

>>7483571
no one would buy the pamphlet sized kernel without it

>> No.7483714

>>7483560
>He still beieves that Harper Lee wrote Mockingbird.

>> No.7483717

>>7483714
>implying a male could write anything that shit

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>>7482530
>it's a Lain goes clubbing with 9 year olds episode

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7483768

>introduction spoils the book

>> No.7483790

>>7482580
>Introduction by the translator
>Introduction by the publisher
>Introduction by the author
>Introduction by the ...

>Preface to the X edition
>,,,

>> No.7483800

Hegel's Philosophy of History:

>Introduction to the Dover Edition
>Translator's Introduction
>Charles Hegel's Preface
>110 page introduction

>> No.7483801

>>7483560
>The greatest American author if the 20th century.
When did Thomas Pynchon do this?

>> No.7483803

>>7483768
holy shit this every time

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7483812

There's a gene wolfe short story collection that starts the introduction with Gene telling the reader how important it is to read introductions then he slips one of the short stories into the section to spite the people that don't read introductions.

>> No.7483823

>>7483812
Why not just label the introduction as chapter 1 if it's that important?

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7484051

>mfw the Hopkins edition of Of Grammatology actually has a good introduction worth the read

>> No.7484092

>>7483329
Tai Lopez? Is that you?

>> No.7484101

>>7483823
>story collection
>chapter 1

>> No.7484105

>>7484101
It'd be a good way to trick people into reading the intro.

>> No.7484276

>>7483823
because salt

>> No.7484525

>>7482527
Jesus Christ this. HOW IS THIS EVEN ALLOWED?

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>>7482372
>skip introduction
>jump into book immediately
>read introduction after reading book

Reading the introduction after reading the book is like talking to an intelligent friend who read the book, studied it, and has a lot to say about it. It's the perfect approach.

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>>7483571
>a gazillion prefaces to the actual content
>last preface is about marx dying and the first grass growing over his grave
>cry forever

well fuck

>> No.7484631

>there's a foreward
>and a 100 page introductory essay
>in a normal edition of a book
why

>> No.7485548

>>7484631
Why not?

>> No.7485677

>>7482727
I know its all just lit memes but im sure there are some people that actually believe it is better to deprive yourself of multiple countries worth of literature than read a translation

>> No.7485708

>>7482411
i love these tho

my version of schopies TWAWAR had an introduction like this, he was basically like "everyone sucks at translating so i did it, heres where they sucked and i rocked, oh btw this wont make sense if you didnt read the fourfold root and I KNOW YOU DIDNT YOU CUNT"

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>Introduction informs you that every character will be dead by the end

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7486521

>author uses the introduction to say why this book is shit and his new one is much better

>> No.7486927

>Introduction/Prologue/Preface is far more difficult, convoluted, and less understandable than novel

I remember in Lit 1101 having to read The Scarlet Letter for the first time, and putting down the book after the intro and being like "fuck, this is harder than I thought." Then, chapter one begins, and it's like an entirely different write - it becomes easy to read and understand, and totally drops the tone of the intro.

>> No.7486949

>>7486256
Everyone dies

>> No.7486951

>>7483768
>>7483803
>>7484525
>reading for plot

>> No.7486966

>>7486951
Oh, look. Someone who's not only too stupid for Maths, but is also too stupid for Literature.