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The Invention of Celebrity The Invention of Celebrity by Antoine Lilti
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“Public homage was like a humiliation. The author was caught in a psychologically damaging confusion between his social being, reduced to only a face and a body, subject to gawking and applause, and his moral being.”
― Antoine Lilti, The Invention of Celebrity
tags: celebrity, fame, homage
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“The success of a book, far from elevating its author, belittled him, transforming him into merchandise.”
― Antoine Lilti, The Invention of Celebrity
tags: authors, celebrity, objectification
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