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The central consideration is whether a literary work provides an experience.
Creating an experience entails something quite different from virtuosic wallowing in the language, verbose philosophizing about the preconditions for language and knowledge.
‘Experience’ means the encounter with the unforeseen, the opaque, the part of life the individual cannot altogether control, the puzzling and surprising, a multiplicity of voices, the desire and the horror of reality and the body, the ephemeral and transitory aspects of life, all the things we cannot cope with and therefore have to narrate. The epic has to do with the fragility and brevity of life.
What would be desirable is a less protected,more fragile concept of literature which would see literature as a medium of closeness, of experience, as an intensification of life, not its destruction. It would be communicative without being banal.
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