In the midst of endless hardships, there is no denying that poetic work holds a certain delight when it comes to choosing rhymes, choosing them and then seeing their effect. No matter how mechanized the process, the discovery of an unexpected rhyme is always pleasurable and stimulating, becoming like an addiction that only makes the poet more and more attached to language. After all, it is an addiction that ends up being productive and, once experienced, makes one wonder about the indifference with which some poets have repelled it.
Tag: literature
If, on the One Hand, It Is Very Useful
If, on the one hand, it is very useful for an artist not to get carried away and to save some of his inspirations so that he can work on them better, on the other hand, he has to develop a very keen sense for recognizing his exceptional moods and ideas, in short, he has to know when it is essential to seize the moment. There are ideas that unfortunately pass, and states of mind that can only be experienced once. Age shows this above all. The experienced writer, no matter how experienced, cannot return to the past in order to write. There is nothing wrong with that, except if, out of an abundance of caution, he perceives in it an opportunity that has been lost.
The Writer Should Always Remember…
The writer should always remember the example of Dostoevsky who, being the staunchest critic of nihilism, is considered by nihilists to be one of their own. This is only because Dostoevsky puts himself entirely from the point of view of his characters, so that when they manifest themselves, the ideas of their creator are indistinguishable. More than effort, achieving this level of artistic expression requires a predisposition: one that seeks, above all, to do justice to the object portrayed; one that, in a word, we call sincerity.
Identifying the Political Leanings of Writers
There is an infallible way of identifying the political leanings of writers who deal with this subject in literature. The technique is very simple, and boils down to checking the treatment given to “bad” characters. On the one hand, we have a trend that creates them as always ambiguous, always complex, never entirely evil; on the other hand, we have the trend that can only paint them as stereotypes, as representing absolute evil, devoid of any virtue. The first thing to note here is the radical difference in the results: in the first case, we generally have interesting, realistic and thought-provoking works; in the second, they are practically unreadable crap, stupid even for the supporters of shameless ideology, which is not ashamed to ruin the literary endeavor. The technique, therefore, shows less the degree of political passion than the stance derived from it: the first group humanizes and seeks to understand the opponent; the second only thinks of destroying him. Nothing more needs to be said; anyone can identify them.