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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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.
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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.