An unexpected plot
Nov 28, 2023 23:26:13 GMT -5
Post by account_disabled on Nov 28, 2023 23:26:13 GMT -5
A look at the literary works of the past There was a period, when I started reading consistently, in which I read several classics and never encountered banal plots. Every book I opened was a surprise. Each book took me into a universe that did not have the flavor of something I had already seen, as happens today with the vast majority of novels. Perhaps at that time there was greater care for narrative, there was particular attention to the reader or perhaps even those authors wrote for themselves, without worrying about market research, statistical data, knowing their public. How many novels of today will resist the weight of the centuries? Very few. One has to wonder why.
You have to wonder what will happen to them, but the answer is simple. In a century's time we will still be reading Manzoni, Pirandello, Poe, Leopardi, Stevenson, Tolstoy, Phone Number Data Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle, Dickens, Verga, etc. And there is one reason: because these authors have created something that cannot fade or go out of fashion. Of obvious novels and banal plots Literature is full of them, isn't it? What will you get from novels like this? What pleasure in reading them? What's the point of seeing a film, for example, if you already know the entire plot and can guess the end? And it's the same for a book: what am I supposed to read if I know everything about that story? I have written several times that I see reading as a study: of words and their combination, of the author's writing style, of the plot and everything that goes into creating that novel.
But it is also pure pleasure of history, pure pastime. I don't play chess with the certainty of winning the game, it wouldn't make sense. On the hero's journey What do we mean by this? Not necessarily the long journey of Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship of the Ring. The journey is also metaphorical, it indicates the change of the protagonist , his transformation from an initial, pre-story state, to a final one, at its conclusion. If there is no journey, there is no story. This is why a story is defined as such if it is worth telling. If we don't even remotely glimpse that journey, then we have no story in front of us. So ok for the hero's journey, but the clichés are completely rejected.
You have to wonder what will happen to them, but the answer is simple. In a century's time we will still be reading Manzoni, Pirandello, Poe, Leopardi, Stevenson, Tolstoy, Phone Number Data Dostoevsky, Conan Doyle, Dickens, Verga, etc. And there is one reason: because these authors have created something that cannot fade or go out of fashion. Of obvious novels and banal plots Literature is full of them, isn't it? What will you get from novels like this? What pleasure in reading them? What's the point of seeing a film, for example, if you already know the entire plot and can guess the end? And it's the same for a book: what am I supposed to read if I know everything about that story? I have written several times that I see reading as a study: of words and their combination, of the author's writing style, of the plot and everything that goes into creating that novel.
But it is also pure pleasure of history, pure pastime. I don't play chess with the certainty of winning the game, it wouldn't make sense. On the hero's journey What do we mean by this? Not necessarily the long journey of Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship of the Ring. The journey is also metaphorical, it indicates the change of the protagonist , his transformation from an initial, pre-story state, to a final one, at its conclusion. If there is no journey, there is no story. This is why a story is defined as such if it is worth telling. If we don't even remotely glimpse that journey, then we have no story in front of us. So ok for the hero's journey, but the clichés are completely rejected.