The laws of literature, like the laws of gossip, usually demand exaggeration, decontextualization, a heightened or minimalized reality, and a lot more shape and order and impact than everyday life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Gossip is more popular than literature.
Literature invents its own rules.
All literature is gossip.
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.
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.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.