{"id":40528,"date":"2025-06-19T11:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcu-lausanne.ch\/why-keep-it-short\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:16:20","slug":"why-keep-it-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcu-lausanne.ch\/en\/life-at-bcul\/why-keep-it-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Why keep it short?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why keep it short? The BCU Lausanne, site Riponne has unearthed these books with the longest, wackiest titles!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>L&#8217;extraordinaire voyage du fakir qui avait rest\u00e9 coinc\u00e9 dans une armoire Ikea, <\/em><em>Le potager des malfaiteurs ayant \u00e9chapper \u00e0 la pendaison <\/em>or <em>Le cercle litt\u00e9raire des amateurs d&#8217;\u00e9pluchures de patates <\/em>. <em>.. <\/em>&#8220;Why keep it simple when you can keep it complicated?&#8221; seems to be the question on the minds of the authors in our selection. While some opt for sobriety, others are more imaginative when it comes to choosing the title of their work. Often absurd and worthy of the most zany exquisite cadavers, they intrigue us and make us want to discover the rest of the book.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why keep it short? The BCU Lausanne, site Riponne has unearthed these books with the longest, wackiest titles! L&#8217;extraordinaire voyage du fakir qui avait rest\u00e9 coinc\u00e9 dans une armoire Ikea, Le potager des malfaiteurs ayant \u00e9chapper \u00e0 la pendaison or Le cercle litt\u00e9raire des amateurs d&#8217;\u00e9pluchures de patates . .. &#8220;Why keep it simple when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":6557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1345],"coauthors":[629],"class_list":["post-40528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-at-bcul"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why keep it short? - BCUL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bcu-lausanne.ch\/en\/life-at-bcul\/why-keep-it-short\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why keep it short? - BCUL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Why keep it short? 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