Michel Desmurget is a doctor in neuroscience and research director at Inserm. He is the author of
Make Them Read! To put an end to the digital idiot
(Éditions du Seuil).
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LE FIGARO. - “Young people read less” is an assertion that we have heard for a long time. When did this “slow agony” of the book begin?
Michel DESMURGET. -
The mechanism is the same as for all major public health problems. First we have the compassionate glue, often carried by underground lobbyist aims. For years we have been told that "
young people never stop reading
", that contesting this fact is a "
period cliché
", a "
declinist refrain
" and that this "
no longer makes any sense to internet time
.” Surveys by the Ministry of Culture show that the fraction of “heavy readers”, that is to say young people who read at least 20 books (in the classic sense) per year (i.e. 20 to 30 minutes per day) has increased , in half a century, among 15-28 year olds by 35%…
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