That's a great point: thought-provoking writing. In Grad School, i met many creative writers (i was doing Lit) who thought they had no responsibility with their readers. They did not care whether they even understood their art. And to me that makes no sense.
Art for art's sake has always sounded so petulant to me. The artist (whatever art they do) does not exist in a vacuum. They owe their inspiration to things around them and it is ultimately to people outside them, who are also affected by the artist's sources of inspiration, who they owe their fame or reputation. What would be the purpose of producing something no one understand?
Fiction can transform peole's conceptions and eventually lead to social transformations.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from: