By Marc Reichwein (Die Welt)
Does anyone remember the initiative “
Vorsicht Buch!
»?
Ten years ago, this multimillion-euro campaign flooded living rooms, billboards and other social networks with ironic warnings of the dangers of reading.
Main danger: its influence.
A book can change your life, was the slogan of this advertisement at the time, both well-intentioned and realized.
It had been designed in signal colors, yellow and black, as on these panels installed in shopping centers, in poorly coated places presenting a risk of falling.
This long forgotten campaign shows how quickly times can change.
Because the warnings about the risks associated with books are no longer a facetious irony, but a reality.
In the preface or afterword of works, publishers and/or authors justify themselves more and more, both for the content and the form of the work.
The trend of trigger warnings
Thereby…
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