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Special issue: Story-Telling in Contemporary French Fiction: le ‘prêt-à-penser’ and Reading PleasureEdited by: Diana Holmes and David PlattenDiana Holmes and David PlattenIntroductionJacques MigozziStorytelling: opium du peuple et / ou plaisirs du texte?Floriane Place-VerghnesInstruction, distraction, réflexion: lecture de PersepolisDavid PlattenWired to the Word: On Reading ThrillersLorna MilneMonumental Misdeeds: Rewriting French History and Identity with Claude Izner and Alix de Saint-AndréDiana HolmesThe Comfortable Reader: Romantic Bestsellers and Critical Disdain