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The opportunity to better understand how the life lessons that world literature gives us are above all lessons in things and techniques. What is the relationship between a desert island, a telegraph, a ghost, a crowd, an autopsy, a naked Amazon, a time machine and clock hands as legs? These things are among the lessons that literature teaches, and those things about which literature teaches better than encyclopaedias. We are talking about Daniel Defoe, Alexandre Dumas and Jules Verne, Zola and Léon Bloy, Marcel Thiry and Robert Desnos and, finally, Georges Simenon. Their lessons deal with the skill of the species, the techniques of transmission, the sociology of cultural practices, the experience of lived time or the derailments that machines, tools serving as organs, introduce into reality.