The strangeness of the writer

"The Curiosities of the Writer" is a book that combines politics and humor. Salim Sarkis, in his satirical style, depicts the practices of the Ottoman censor, the "writer," who transformed journalism into an arena for linguistic frivolity, adding, deleting, and turning meanings upside down to protect the Sultan's image from any criticism. However, this frivolity was not without stinging anecdotes and witty paradoxes that journalists have long joked about. It is a literary and political text...