Crítica literária

[the revenant choir]

Vamos compartilhar alguns textos de crítica literária (no sentido acadêmico) aqui. Começo com um bem conhecido, o "Por que ler os clássicos" do Ítalo Calvino:

https://trapichedosoutros.blogspot.com/2015/07/por-que-ler-os-classicos-de-italo.html

...Um clássico é um livro que nunca terminou de dizer aquilo que tinha para dizer...

 

[the revenant choir]

"The prevention of literature", do George Orwell:

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/prevention/english/e_plit

But however it may be with the physical sciences, or with music, painting and architecture, it is — as I have tried to show — certain that literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes. Not only is it doomed in any country which retains a totalitarian structure; but any writer who adopts the totalitarian outlook, who finds excuses for persecution and the falsification of reality, thereby destroys himself as a writer. There is no way out of this. No tirades against ‘individualism’ and the ‘ivory tower’, no pious platitudes to the effect that ‘true individuality is only attained through identification with the community’, can get over the fact that a bought mind is a spoiled mind. Unless spontaneity enters at some point or another, literary creation is impossible, and language itself becomes something totally different from what it is now, we may learn to separate literary creation from intellectual honesty.