Literature as art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X08zzXWzag

I’m sure many of you have seen this video in Facebook or in other social media and maybe you liked and you agree with it. It talks about the artists, any kind of artist and what they do. And you might say, “What does it with the subject about? It’s about literature. It talks about “El Quijote” and all of those novels that we read when we are older. But at the beginning, and barely read, we are introduced into literature through tales and little stories by adults who read to us.

As it says, we would not be the same without any of those creations that now we consider indispensable classics. And some of those classics are tales, fables and books that we have read or studied. Since we were little, our parents read tales to us before go to sleep; or in the kindergarten the teacher told us a story to teach us many things; and without those little steps we were nothing nowadays. Because…How would we be without Gloria Fuertes and her riddles and poems; without Charles Perrault or Hans Christian Andersen; without having read Hansel and Gretel, The King Midas, The three little pigs, The ant and the grasshopper, The ugly duckling, The pied piper of Hamelin, Puss in boots, Peter and the wolf, Little Red Riding Hood, The Emperor’s new clothes, The steadfast tin soldier, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Bluebeard, Juan Sinmiedo, The goose that laid the golden eggs, The little match-seller, and without all the things that the stories taught to us even when we weren’t  aware of it?

Personally, I always liked to read and that’s because of my father, who read to me since I was little before go to sleep. He read to me all the entire library until in the school they taught me to read and then I could choose and pick the books following my likes and preferences. I read before go to sleep, during the long ways by car and even when I didn’t know what to do. There are many people like me. Because I’m sure, all of us have our favorite tale or story; or that book that when we finish it and we close it we say “Wow!”. Because of that literature is so much important for personal development and to develop many competences like the imagination, the vocabulary, the writing comprehension or writing texts.

For literature there always has to be some “muerto de hambre” to write for us to enjoy, and for that, thank you.

One thought on “Literature as art

  1. Lidia, I find your post a little messy. From the title I guessed you were justifying literature as art, but you start talking about your personal experience first. Also, I don’t think it is correct to use those words to refer to writers. I’m afraid many of them cannot make a living writing, but they still do it because they enjoy it and want to share their creations with us. I’m sure you didn’t mean to insult them, but the meaning of the sentence is not clear and may be misunderstood.
    It is good to see that your reading map is helping you to reflect on your literary experiences. Let’s keep on working on that!

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