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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
All literature is political.
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.