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What is literature?

For JP Sartre, literature is always a call that the author turns to the freedom of the reader. Nobody writes for himself you write forever because someone else read . The reading is not a time accessory, outside literary work, but it is indeed un elemento essenziale e necessario. Solo il lettore può far "vivere" nella sua immaginazione l'opera, che senza di lui rimarrebbe un insieme inerte di segni neri stampati su carta. "Lo scrittore si appella alla libertà del lettore perché collabori alla produzione della sua opera" . In questo senso, il piacere estetico consiste nel godimento della propria libertà creativa, sia da parte dell'autore che del lettore.

Difatti, il fine della libertà può essere solo la libertà stessa. L'atto di libertà, che costituisce l'opera letteraria, non è in alcun modo compatibile con l'oppressione. "Non è concepibile (...) che il lettore gioisca della

propria free reading work that endorsement, or acceptance, or simply fail to condemn the enslavement of man by. Literature also called realist can never be confined to photograph an external reality, but, by virtue of the collaboration between author and reader inherent in any work of art, makes the author and reader share responsibility for the world that is contained in the work, if the reality is a reality in the work that appears unfair, the reader may not confined to contemplate passively, but his freedom is a commitment to overcome and abolish injustice. Sartre's vision is therefore a vision of literature engagée.

The senseless game of writing, according Maurice Blanchot the very essence of literature is intended as entertainment Infinite . A story on curls another, and another yet, in a ceaseless game of joints. Loving the literature is to have a strong dependence on stories, and narratives from plots. What is the meaning of this game? The simple pleasure of sottomettervisi.

Every writer - remember Borges - creates his precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past because allows us to read the texts prior to it as if it were his advances and then

completely differently from how they were conceived. The labyrinths of the spirit are the essence of literature. In this sense, the writing is similar to the metaphysical symmetry and crystallography Escher.

Italo Calvino, Italian writer, was the first to be invited to the Norton Lectures at Harvard University in the USA. Each lesson is inspired by a value of literature that Calvin considered important. Here is some literary values to be preserved into the next millennium:

• lightness
• speed
• accuracy
• visibility
• multiplicity

Lightness

"After forty ' years that I write fiction, after exploring various roads and made several experiments, the time has come that I look for an overall definition for my work, I propose this: my operation was in most cases a subtraction of weight. "

Quick

"I will tell you that dream immense cosmologies, sagas and epics contained in the dimension of un'epigramma.

"Among the many virtues of Chuang-Tzu was his skill at drawing. The king asked him the drawing of a crab. Chuang-Tzu said that he needed five years to ed'una house, and twelve servants. After five years the plan had not yet begun. 'I need another five years,' said Chuang-Tzu. The king granted them. At the end of the decade, Chuang-tzu took up his brush and, in an instant with a single stroke, he drew a crab , the most perfect crab ever seen. "

Accuracy
"As Hofmannsthal says: 'The depth should be hidden. Where? The surface '. And Wittgenstein was still further than Hofmannsthal, when he said: 'That which is hidden, we do not care'.

Visibility
"There is a verse of Dante in the Purgatorio (XVII, 25) which says, 'Then reigned within al'alta fancy'. My lecture this evening will start from this observation: the imagination is a place where it rains inside. "

Multiplicity
"Every life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a collection of styles, where everything can be contiunuamente shuffled and reordered in every way possible.

But in the end - and this is a bit 'vision of myself - all those horizons that can never be fully achieved and near misses, offering material to the writer to make his writing and literature. In this sense, literature is not, nor can it be, a discipline based on reconciliation with the world.

Hesperia