Luciano Duarte | Literature and philosophy

Regional Literature Fails for Having Narrow Vision

A literature that pretends to be regional fails, from the beginning, for having narrow vision. What are the particularities, if not aggravating? And how can the central problem of a work be relevant if not universal? The obsession with regional affirmation produces, if at all, works of inferior quality: they lower the described region if they involve it in banalities and deprive it of comprehensive issues. When a real problem, if exploited by a great artist, will naturally elevate his people by placing them in a context that arouses empathy and universal respect.

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Dignity

Dignity: insubmission to destiny; complete refusal to play a social role; reaction contrary to instincts; freedom, even in privation and pain; ability to choose and take responsibility for one’s own acts; resilience to fortune; effort, even if useless; respect by one’s own conscience.

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Manifesto of Emigrating Interest

I do not know if Providence will allow me to watch, alive, the world led by those of my generation. I can imagine, of course: my imagination is capable of everything. So I address myself to some alien who—one never knows…—may be monitoring these lines. Is there, dear friend, an interplanetary immigration program in progress on your noble planet? Please do not hesitate to inform me through the contact form on this site. I am open to negotiations.

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Personality is demarcated by choices

Personality is demarcated by choices. And, of course, the lack of personality is the inability to choose. I admit it is cozy to have the medium as an architect of reality: this is no less than exempting oneself from any responsibility. However, it is assuming submission, evidencing a myopic and very limited understanding of existence. Raskolnikov is not the corollary of an unjust and oppressive medium, but the portrait of a conscious action and its consequences. It is good to remember Viktor Frankl: the human being is the reaction to circumstances; the final act vetoes any response, but the rest of the piece will always give way to action.

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