#Contemporary Literature
Quotes about contemporary-literature
Contemporary literature is a vibrant and dynamic genre that reflects the complexities and nuances of modern life. It encompasses a wide range of themes, from the exploration of identity and cultural diversity to the challenges of technology and globalization. This genre serves as a mirror to our current world, offering insights into the human condition and the ever-evolving societal landscape. People are drawn to quotes from contemporary literature because they resonate with the immediacy of our experiences and the shared emotions of our time. These quotes often capture the essence of modern dilemmas, joys, and struggles, providing a sense of connection and understanding. They offer a fresh perspective on age-old questions and inspire readers to reflect on their own lives and the world around them. In a rapidly changing world, contemporary literature provides a voice that is both relevant and relatable, making it a powerful tool for introspection and dialogue. Whether it’s through poignant observations or thought-provoking narratives, contemporary literature continues to captivate and inspire, offering a rich tapestry of words that speak to the heart of today’s society.
To recount modern life one has to have characters with iPads and smart phones who take trains and planes, and to be aware how this alters consciousness, identity, and the kind of experiences people have. They are constantly exposed to contact from everyone they know and many they don’t.
Writers more interested in literature than the truth ensure that they never come out with either thing — one reason that the word literature today sounds so fake, as if you were to insist on saying cuisine every time you meant food. Food, as in sustenance, is more like what we have in mind.
Much is said about escapism in narrative and fiction. But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not at home, yet have to live: the present.
There are no backwaters where things can breed—our connectivity is so high and so global that there are no more Seattles and no more Haight-Ashburys. We’ve arrived at a level of commodification that may have negated the concept of counterculture.
[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years."That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.
Because all of us are so ready to talk about the world we live in. We are ready to have a publishing industry that is of that world.
Beneath all the chatter and the liturgy runs a fierce nostalgia for the literary myths of the past, for the gigantic figures of Dickens and Joyce, Hemingway and Faulkner. A writer can’t even aim at that kind of aura today. But it’s that yearning for imagined greatness that drives the whole literary enterprise. Plus the publishers’ desperation to manufacture a bestseller to pay the bills. The idea of greatness is a marketing tool. See Franzen.
This is the difference between U.S. Latina/o letters and Latina/o Letters from Latin America: In the United States, writing is a business. In Latin America, writing is life and death.
I think that the cultural dominance of narrative forms that seduce you with character and plot perhaps at the expense of ideas, like The Magic Mountain [won’t last]. Starvation sharpens the appetite.