Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse by Sven Birkerts

Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse

Sven Birkerts

266 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction essays science technology reflective medium-paced
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When the great Russian writer Tolstoy was first offered the use of a brand new invention called the Dictaphone, he refused it, saying that it was sure to be "too dreadfully exciting" and would distract him from his literary endeavors.For this prov...

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