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Your Favorite Books Are Lying to You: The Hidden Math of Character Networks
Think literature is a free space for imagination? Think again. A landmark study by Dutch scholar Roel Smeets from Radboud University analyzed 170 contemporary Dutch novels and 2,137 characters using computational social network models. The findings are shocking: women and migrants, though numerically underrepresented, secretly hold the most structural power as social glue, while racial and generational segregation runs deep. Even celebrated novels like *Eus* by Oskan Akyol reveal parasitic power dynamics masked as underdog stories. Discover how your favorite books betray subconscious biases through character constellations, and learn to see the hidden geometry of every story you read.
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