Tag: literature

While it is true that the profession, or rather the livelihood, inevitably influences the themes that writers are inclined to address in their works, there are certainly professions and professions. Law, to a greater or lesser extent, leads to the perception of endless bureaucracy and injustice. Journalism, of perfidy. In these two examples, it is difficult for the subject matter not to also lead to a certain tone. Therefore, although both areas of activity seem to have an intimate link with writing, it is easy to fall into commonplaces when looking for the raw material for the work. On the other hand, professions that appear to be less connected to literature, such as medicine, especially office medicine, provide an arsenal of human experiences that is extremely varied and very difficult to classify. In this case, the extraction of material does not seem to be accompanied by a suggestion of theme or tone.

Although, as has been said, good literature is always more or less autobiographical, it is useless to obsessively search in its details for parallels with the author’s experience. More often than not, experiences only serve as triggers, motifs, illustrations for something that goes beyond them in the work. That is no small feat, and it is more than enough. The rest is the exploration and deepening of the possibilities that literature allows, but that life sometimes does not.

The most evident effect of the politicization of culture, the main manifestation of which is art, is the inhibition of creativity. In literature, the result is works that can do anything but surprise the reader. And that is where the problem arises: although a work does not necessarily have to stand out for its surprising nature in order to be good, predictability, when absolute, is simply intolerable. A work whose course is already predetermined by an ideology, whatever it may be, is a dead work, and the artists who voluntarily imprison themselves in this unfortunate cell are dead beforehand.