I must be failing to understand something here. Are not most of the most important books ever written - scientific journals, philosophies, spiritual texts, every opinion piece and letter and revolutionary published idea - non-fiction?
Novels may be important culturally, but in my mind the real value of books lies in the straightforward communication of ideas and knowledge, not stories.
Are you sure this is Antje Rávic Strubel? She does not look and sound like her.
Steppdecke2000 4 months ago
Winston Churchill was awared the Nobel Prize for "mastery of historical and biographical description" - so how is that not non-fiction?
fuhrerschein2008 11 months ago
I must be failing to understand something here. Are not most of the most important books ever written - scientific journals, philosophies, spiritual texts, every opinion piece and letter and revolutionary published idea - non-fiction?
Novels may be important culturally, but in my mind the real value of books lies in the straightforward communication of ideas and knowledge, not stories.
taicleis 11 months ago