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- Source :
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New York Times Book Review . 1/1/2012, p18-18. 0p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- THE THIRD REICH, by Roberto Bolano. Translated by Natasha Wimmer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) A German vacationing in Spain plays a World War II strategy game with a mysterious burn victim in a novel found among Bolano's papers after his death. THE FOLLY OF FOOLS: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life, by Robert Trivers. (Basic Books, $28.) An intriguing argument that deceit is a beneficial evolutionary ''deep feature'' of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SELF-deception
*NONFICTION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00287806
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New York Times Book Review
- Publication Type :
- Review
- Accession number :
- 70052896