The whole point of literature is to expose us to different ideas and different eras, and they won't always be nice and benign.
Writers and readers of worth know the real point of literature is, as Louis MacNeice so brilliantly put it, that the "World is crazier and more of it than we think,/ Incorrigibly plural".
He believed that the point of literature was to make sense of the world, and, although shy and unassertive, he was a blazingly confident guide to how and where to discover those truths.
Again, I let myself understand that science is the best window on understanding the Earth, which is where we all tread, which is thus the best way to understand man, which is the whole point of literature: to understand the experience of being alive.
"At the end of the day, the point of literature and art is to inspire debate, conversation, and emotion," she said.
Isn't the point of literature to inspire readers to imagine? (This exchange had taken place in a previous conference, weeks before).
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In that sense, "Things Fall Apart" is not just the starting point of African literature, but of modern African literature: contemporary, hybrid, global in its implications, influenced by everything, and richer for it in its evocation of the world.
Strandberg, VH. "Adventures in Selfhood: Robert Penn Warren's Portraits of the Artist". Five Points: a Journal of Literature and Art (2018): 20182018
