Une interview d'Ursula Le Guin

[jerome]

Ursula Le Guin est en interview ici et elle parle des ebooks etc.

Extrait :
"JEFFREY BROWN: What as a reader yourself and as a writer, what gives you worry -- to the extent that you do worry about the readership or about the state of reading -- what gives you worry when you look at the landscape?

URSULA LE GUIN: What worries me most is the state of education in the United States. Whatever the technology by which you read, children aren't being taught to read very well or to read very good stuff. Our schools are so starved and underfunded and over-managed that children are almost thrown to the visible media, television and then this sort of huge rash of intercommunicating all the time. We have traditionally learned most of what we learn from second or third grade on through reading. Nobody's figured out a better way yet. So if people, you know, howl and whine about oh, nobody's reading novels anymore and so on, well when were they ever taught how to read fiction? You have to be taught how to read things. It's not just learning your alphabet. You have to be taught how to read. Reading is a fairly advanced skill.

JEFFREY BROWN: So does that change things for a writer? Do you write for a changing readership?

URSULA LE GUIN: No, because being a literary writer -- although some people would not admit that I am because I have sullied myself with science fiction -- no, I write for people who read literature and they are always going to be more or less the same people. It's not necessarily class or income; it's just people who like literature. "