Intimista de clarice lispector biography

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As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing.



Books, what are they for? Why do we read them? For Kafka, books were “the axe for the frozen sea within us”; Carl Sagan held them as “proof that humans are capable of working magic”. We say that particular arrangement and assortment of words create a world whose roots are hidden in the imagination of the author. Fiction per se, though is about things which may not exist in real world however it is very much about writing truth- to understand that truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are. In a sense, as Neil Gaiman says fiction is lie which tells truth.

And what about the responsibility of an author? Should he state things as they are, if that the case then we would have not been reading so many ‘great’ authors. However, isn’t it so that essentially everyone is writing the same thing, as Borges used to maintain. Why people keep on writing then and more importantly why we are reading them, individually and separately. George Orwell wrote that ‘one would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand’. An author may have an obligation, which is to not to freeze language, or to prete