Luciano Duarte

There comes a time when social criticism grows tiresome and grows tiresome a literature that focuses entirely on inferior types. There comes a time when the absence of the representation of an opposite model, a superior one that instructs and inspires by example, even if it can be labeled utopian or incomplete, is painful. The truth is that, in this sense, all literature can be labeled as utopian and incomplete, that is, as an imaginary creation from an individual point of view that cannot but only cover a portion of reality. And neither literature nor the author can avoid the fact that this part is considered the most important for both of them.

The great literature has a fundamental link with reality, without which it completely loses its educational function. It is the investigation of reality, albeit in the form of a possible reality, that makes literature broaden the reader’s horizon, making his understanding greater than that of someone who does not read. From this it is easy to see not only the importance, but also the need for the author to work on what is most strictly personal in the work. In doing so, he allows what he has been able to experience and understand individually to become, through reading, also the patrimony of his reader.

The essential role of literature is to uncover, examine and criticize human possibilities that may go unnoticed by those who do not pay attention or do not imagine them. In short, it is a work of broadening and deepening understanding. Literature is great because it is never exhausted, because it contains within itself the potential of everything not yet imagined, harboring the most strictly personal ideas. These, put down on paper, renew it and enhance it, in an infinite expansion that never fails to make room for a new author.