Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In general, literature is a natural adversary of totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments all view literature in the same way: as their enemy. I lived for a long time in a totalitarian state, and I know firsthand that horror.
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
Literature has become my life.
Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has the right to interfere in the affairs of state.
All literature is political.
You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.
I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.