The adjective for "What is literature?" By Jean-Paul Sartre: surgery (a term stolen from who knows).
Pages 573, The Assayer [Translated by Luisa Cogliati Arano-Anna Del Bo, Oreste Del Buono, Jone Graziani, Augusta Mattioli, Massimo Mauri, Daria Menicanti, Giorgio Monicelli, Edward Soprano, Domenico Tarizzo, Gisella Tarizzo].
It was a birth that I have broken down over several days, enjoying a rare satisfaction. Sartre is cynically polished, examines the various arguments veils constantly discovering, creating bridges previously unimaginable, knocking against the reader from the hidden logic doxa, opinion of most.
The first edition of a collection of writings is dated 1960 (the new one is 2009) and it would be simplistic to accuse the father of existentialism as passed - curious to read the sentences of some contemporary critics - as the surprise of all present, although the context is different and more structured, are frequent. Here, I like the following word: attended; attend Sartre is complex, you need to be equipped with a superior culture (in this, unfortunately I must say that I felt uncomfortable not take the test a few times), if the goal is to understand each his single proposition, but if, with more humility, the desire is to bring as much as possible their precarious critical tools - trying to produce meanings within us - the words of Sartre, then the game is not only serious, also seductive. He persuades the reader accompanies him, since he wonders what the writing the consciousness of the artist, through a variety of topics dealing with informed not only literature, art, too (for example the painting of Giacometti) or philosophy (an example is "L'amour et l ' Occident "by Denis de Rougemont).
" claiming for itself and as a writer the freedom to think and express his opinion, the author necessarily serve the interests of the bourgeoisie." There is talk of freedom of opinion and revolutionary ideology. Regardless of the ideas, our point of view - year 2010 - does not allow a rough time to rest, far as we are now by class conflicts, perhaps forgotten, because certain forms of association between the writer's role and interests of the plutocrats are not so changed over time. There's more in the words of Sartre, the effort to examine the world around him with eyes that straddle eras, from generation to generation.
Read here: "We have said that the writer is addressed in principle to all men. But soon after, we pointed out that only a few read it. The gap between ideal and real public audience the idea of \u200b\u200babstract universality. That is, the author postulates the unlimited future in a perpetual rebuilding of the small group of readers available in the present. The literary glory strangely resembles the eternal return of Nietzsche: it is a fight against history. "
Nothing to add, I think.
not miss "François Mauriac and Freedom" or "Orfeo Negro", a breathtaking piece for those who love those themes, not to mention the reflection on friendship with Camus, a slice of life between two of ments that have stimulated more recent years the cultural debate in France and beyond.
What is literature? Sartre's essay is an indispensable and at the same time a warning to to us all: "What were you hoping to take out the gag to close this black mouths? That sings your praises? ".
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