The novel is called Newspaper and is written by a Frenchman, Edouard Levé. You open it up, skip to page six, and find this: “FOUR MEN IN POSSESSION of industrial quantities of cyanide and maps of various embassies throughout the capital have been arrested. In the course of the raid, the police found a map of the city’s water distribution network.” Flipping forward, you see that, “ACCORDING TO A SURVEY, 73 percent of parents of schoolchildren are in favor of transferring Saturday morning classes to Wednesday morning, leaving Saturday entirely free.” Page 74, under the heading “SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,” falls this sobering paragraph:

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世界新闻、世界小说、世界图片：在 Edouard Levé 的报纸上（2004 年、2015 年）

这部小说名为《报纸》，由法国人爱德华·莱维 (Edouard Levé) 撰写。你打开它，跳到第六页，你会发现：“四名持有工业数量氰化物的男子和整个首都各大使馆的地图已被逮捕。在突袭过程中，警方找到了一张城市供水网络的地图。” 再往前看，你会看到，“根据一项调查，73% 的学童家长赞成将周六早上的课程转移到周三早上，让周六完全免费。” 第 74 页，在“科学与技术”的标题下，有一段发人深省的段落：