What is Literature
L A literature and s the word art, nothing more. is not something else. (If you understand this, okay.)
... Now, what is the art ?, Art is the expression of beauty, plain and simple, and the beauty is the perfect harmony between the parts of a whole or, in the words of Valle-Inclan "Beauty is the intuition of the unity ..." And the unit, I say, is an essential condition of art ... Already the great Oscar Wilde was careful to note, once, as follows: "There is no art without style and no style where lack unity, and unity belongs to the individual ... "(From this it follows further that all artistic creation is true, of necessity, highly personal.)
Let's talk, in this moment, Gertude Stein , American writer, who pose for Picasso said: "Bello has come to mean just beautiful, no common praise and duller." Of course, Gertrude Stein was a woman ugly: well we dismiss completely, your opinion ... Consider, rather, a phrase spoken by Voltaire: "Beauty is relative: for example, to the toad as Sapa is beautiful. "Question for the astute reader: toads have a say?, myself and I do not think beauty is not relative people are just bad taste ... And what is good taste (perhaps some will be tempted to question), the taste is like love: it does or does not have and when you have not asked for it.
Let us return to the literature: what criteria are needed to determine if a book is worth anything? ... It takes only three things: culture, intelligence and sensitivity: a broad and vast culture, a thin and sharp intelligence and an exquisite sensitivity, that's all.
What are the best books? John Ruskin, who was a mentor of Oscar Wilde at Oxford, he asserted that "the best books are those that have been posted in the countryside, far from cities." But I'm not really sure this is true. Borges, whom I hate (by the way), stated: "Great books are travel books: ... Iliad, The Odyssey, The Icelandic sagas, The Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor, The Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Moby Dick, Alice in Wonderland ... " (And many more that I refuse to list ... Oh, and Lolita . Borges it does not, but I include myself.)
back to Ruskin, it added that secondly had to read books that were rhythmic, ie itself with good music . This criteria is for me one of the more reasonable. The Greeks believed that literature was in itself, but an art of narrative, to refer simply . Good books, must know, are aimed primarily ear.
Sea, what kind of books should we avoid? ... All kinds of books with political overtones or propaganda of any kind or that pursue social demands, are pamphleteers and therefore bad, not pure literature are ... All kinds of books that pursue educational or non-moralistic and work of a great thinker and writer ... Finally, the successful books: books that appeal to the majority tend to be invariably bad.
... "Three authors rare and perfect?: Khayyam, Saadi and Hafiz ... You have to read the Persians ... Goethe once confessed to a friend Ambassador, that the Persians had only seven poets who had considered as true masters, but even among those who had rejected, had better than him ... (Which, of course, completely true: Goethe, who wrote one of my favorite books, The Sorrows of Young Werther not escaped what Nietzsche blamed on German writers: heaviness, something that then suffers, also, the philosopher.)
Finally, what is the picture of the current literature?, idiots books written by idiots, for a public idiot. The appreciation of good books has fallen sharply and the intelligence of the writers as well.
Let's talk, in this moment, Gertude Stein , American writer, who pose for Picasso said: "Bello has come to mean just beautiful, no common praise and duller." Of course, Gertrude Stein was a woman ugly: well we dismiss completely, your opinion ... Consider, rather, a phrase spoken by Voltaire: "Beauty is relative: for example, to the toad as Sapa is beautiful. "Question for the astute reader: toads have a say?, myself and I do not think beauty is not relative people are just bad taste ... And what is good taste (perhaps some will be tempted to question), the taste is like love: it does or does not have and when you have not asked for it.
Let us return to the literature: what criteria are needed to determine if a book is worth anything? ... It takes only three things: culture, intelligence and sensitivity: a broad and vast culture, a thin and sharp intelligence and an exquisite sensitivity, that's all.
What are the best books? John Ruskin, who was a mentor of Oscar Wilde at Oxford, he asserted that "the best books are those that have been posted in the countryside, far from cities." But I'm not really sure this is true. Borges, whom I hate (by the way), stated: "Great books are travel books: ... Iliad, The Odyssey, The Icelandic sagas, The Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor, The Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Moby Dick, Alice in Wonderland ... " (And many more that I refuse to list ... Oh, and Lolita . Borges it does not, but I include myself.)
back to Ruskin, it added that secondly had to read books that were rhythmic, ie itself with good music . This criteria is for me one of the more reasonable. The Greeks believed that literature was in itself, but an art of narrative, to refer simply . Good books, must know, are aimed primarily ear.
Sea, what kind of books should we avoid? ... All kinds of books with political overtones or propaganda of any kind or that pursue social demands, are pamphleteers and therefore bad, not pure literature are ... All kinds of books that pursue educational or non-moralistic and work of a great thinker and writer ... Finally, the successful books: books that appeal to the majority tend to be invariably bad.
... "Three authors rare and perfect?: Khayyam, Saadi and Hafiz ... You have to read the Persians ... Goethe once confessed to a friend Ambassador, that the Persians had only seven poets who had considered as true masters, but even among those who had rejected, had better than him ... (Which, of course, completely true: Goethe, who wrote one of my favorite books, The Sorrows of Young Werther not escaped what Nietzsche blamed on German writers: heaviness, something that then suffers, also, the philosopher.)
Finally, what is the picture of the current literature?, idiots books written by idiots, for a public idiot. The appreciation of good books has fallen sharply and the intelligence of the writers as well.
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