O VID WAS exiled by Augustus Caesar to a bleak village on the Black Sea. His satirical guide to seduction, “The Art of Love”, was banished from Roman libraries. In 1121 Peter Abelard, known for his writings on logic and his passion for Héloïse, was forced by the Catholic church to burn his own book. And in perhaps the most famous modern example of hostility to literature, Iran called for the murder of Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses”, in 1989. For its perceived blasphemy, the novel remains banned in at least a dozen countries from Senegal to Singapore. Book-banning remains a favourite tool of the autocrat and the fundamentalist, who are both genuinely threatened by the wayward ideas that literature can contain. In democracies books can provoke a different sort of panic. Armies, prisons, prim parents and progressive zealots all seek to censor literature they fear could overthrow their values. Bans on books that shock, mock or titillate reveal much about a time and place. They invariably attract legions of curious readers, too. Here are eight books you shouldn’t read.
O Vid被奥古斯都·凯撒（Augustus Caesar）流放到黑海上一个荒凉的村庄。他的诱惑讽刺指南“爱的艺术”被罗马图书馆驱逐出境。在1121年，彼得·阿贝拉德（Peter Abelard）以逻辑的著作和对赫洛伊（Héloïse）的热情而闻名，天主教会被迫烧掉自己的书。也许在对文学敌视的最著名的现代典范中，伊朗呼吁谋杀1989年的《撒旦诗句》的作者萨尔曼·拉什迪（Salman Rushdie）。由于其认为的亵渎神灵，这部小说至少在塞内加尔到新加坡的十二个国家被禁止。书籍抛弃仍然是独裁者和原教旨主义者的最喜欢的工具，他们都受到文学所包含的任性思想的真正威胁。在民主国家中，书籍会引起另一种恐慌。军队，监狱，原始父母和进步的狂热者都试图审查他们担心的文学，他们担心会推翻其价值观。禁止震惊，模拟或滴答声的书籍揭示了很多时间和地点。它们总是吸引大量好奇的读者。这是您不应该读的八本书。
