There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
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.
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
All literature is political.